by Andre Towner | Jan 16, 2020 | Opinion
I am a systems person by nature and training. I have always been fascinated with why and how things work; understanding if I poked something here, why something moved over there; cause and effect. While my mother didn’t appreciate this aspect of my personality when...
by Starlette Thomas | Jan 14, 2020 | Opinion
“I have a dream…” But America made his wife Coretta’s life a nightmare. Widowed and left to raise their children alone. Before King’s death, it was a living hell. Bombed home, bullied by strangers and blamed by his own, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “A Letter from a...
by Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins | Jan 13, 2020 | Opinion
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2020, I would love to hear parents in their homes and speakers in auditoriums focus on King’s April 16, 1963, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” There are gems galore in that letter. Reading it, I am most drawn to the inseparability of... by Leroy Seat | Apr 23, 2018 | Opinion
Headlines and social media feeds were filled earlier this month with articles about the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination on April 4, 1968. King wrote his powerful “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” five years earlier on April 16,... by Colin Harris | Apr 16, 2013 | Opinion
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” one of the classic documents from what many interpreters see as a significant turning point in the public consciousness toward the systemic injustice that...
