Giving Compass' Take:

• In honor of the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr., two reverends are resurrecting the Poor People's Campaign. They plan to host a series of protests and activities this spring in the Rust Belt,  the Central Valley of California, and Appalachia, among other locations.

• Poverty and inequity have not disappeared, but efforts to address it continue. Should philanthropy play a larger role in making change?

• The MLK50 panel on education was recently held in Memphis and included discussions on educational equity.

At the time of his death, Reverend King was doing more than crafting inspirational phrases. He was laying the groundwork for his Poor People's Campaign, an intersectional movement dedicated to eliminating poverty in America, the richest nation on earth.

As part of the campaign, King helped to organize a 3,000 person protest camp on the Washington mall for six weeks. As part of the campaign, King helped to organize a 3,000 person protest camp on the Washington mall for six weeks.

At the time of his death, however, Reverend King was doing more than crafting inspirational phrases. He was laying the groundwork for his Poor People's Campaign, an intersectional movement dedicated to eliminating poverty in America, the richest nation on earth.

As part of the campaign, King helped to organize a 3,000 person protest camp on the Washington mall for six weeks. After King's death, the movement tragically lost most of its momentum. Fifty years later, Reverend Dr. William Barber II and Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis have resurrected his movement, with chapters in 40 states, all of them guided by the same mission: challenging the country's "distorted morality" and replacing it with something just.

But Barber and Theoharis' Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival hopes to change all of that by creating an intersectional movement outside of the two-party system, one that focuses on the "saving America's soul" from the sins of militarism, systemic racism, environmental destruction, voter suppression, and poverty.

Beginning on Mother's Day, the campaign will launch dozens of initiatives across the nation, from direct action to voter registration, to nonviolent civil disobedience, leading up to a mass mobilization at the U.S. Capitol in late June.

Read more about the MLK's poor people's campaign by Heather Dockray at Mashable.