During Black History Month, more than 230,000 pages of government documents related to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were released. These files include records connected to the FBI, COINTELPRO surveillance operations, and the federal investigation surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Yet the national conversation focused somewhere else.
Instead of examining the historical record surrounding Dr. King, the media and social media cycles were dominated by headlines about the Epstein files.
In this episode of The Publisher’s Desk, Damon K. Jones examines:
• What the newly released MLK documents actually represent
• The documented history of COINTELPRO and federal surveillance of Black leaders
• Why Dr. King was considered a threat to government institutions
• How federal agencies targeted civil rights movements in the 1960s
• Why Black History Month should have been a moment to study this history
This conversation is not about conspiracy theories.
It’s about documented history and institutional power.
If the government targeted Dr. King through surveillance and disruption programs, what does that teach us about how institutions respond when power is challenged?
This episode explores why ignoring those documents may represent what we call “The Black Betrayal.”
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