Abstract
With a renaissance in scholarship on Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) and Martin Luther King, Jr., conversations within and beyond the African American community have focused on the political and social strategies of these two men as resources in articulating a new vision for the struggle against the jagged and complex congeries of race, gender, and class, and their impact on
plight of African Americans. Sorely neglected in these conversations is the place of spirituality in the social and political thought and praxis of these two men. Beyond their respective approaches to the political and economic spheres of Black existence is a more profound and relevant legacy. Malcolm and Martin leave living testaments of their hope: an irrepressible hope that will not relinquish its hold on the redemptive possibilities inherent in human beings.