I agree with Marian Wright Edelmen, who spoke recently with Tavis Smiley about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, beyond the 60s: “We love our prophets, we love the dream, but we don’t love the bounced promissory note.” On a personal level, I look at how far we have not come since the… Continue reading Education Under Arrest
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Poor People’s Campaign ~ Lessons from the Streets of 1968
My family was living on Hazard Drive in Albany, Georgia when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968—my late mother’s 42nd birthday. I was two months shy of 14 and felt doubly sad—that King’s life had been snuffed out and my mother would cry for him on her birthday. Five weeks later, on… Continue reading Poor People’s Campaign ~ Lessons from the Streets of 1968