--- description: Honey, a professor at the University of Washington Tacoma, is author of To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Michael K. Honey ## Michael K. Honey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Honey, a professor at the University of Washington Tacoma, is author of To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice ## Michael K. Honey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * ![Fast food workers and union members carry signs as they stage a protest outside of a McDonald's restaurant in Oakland, Calif., on Feb. 12, 2018, the 50th anniversary of the historic Memphis Sanitation Strike that was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt934a1b389ec1678b/698a0a7922fb854c94e2a9e9/martin-luther-king-jr-economic-justice.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Feb 20, 2020 ### [What Happened to Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream of Economic Justice?](https://time.com/5783976/martin-luther-king-jr-economic-justice/) Here's where the issue of economic injustice stands today [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/michael-k-honey/","name":"Michael K. Honey"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/michael-k-honey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/michael-k-honey/"},"name":"Michael K. Honey","jobTitle":null,"description":"Honey, a professor at the University of Washington Tacoma, is author of To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice","url":"https://time.com/author/michael-k-honey/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```