Far from being limited to the “civil rights” struggle of Black people in America, this true meaning and legacy of Dr. King included an acute awareness of the cosmological view that “all life is interrelated,” and a commitment to holistically engaging the overlapping issues of poverty and economic injustice, war and imperialism, systemic racism, and environmental degradation — issues which very much continue to plague our world in the twenty-first century. Particularly after the movement’s Civil Rights and Voting Rights Amendment victories in 1964 and 1965 — following King’s legendary 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech where he remains, in many ways, frozen in time — Dr. King gradually expanded the scope of his vision and rhetoric to include awareness of the Vietnam War and imperialism, ecological issues, and the systemic failure of capitalism. Only by remembering the nuanced and radical — the funky — truth of this leader, will modern humans truly resurrect and honor the spirit of King.