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Honoring the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

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May 23, 2018

Our Elders Didn’t Fail Us

Written by Lucas Johnson

The change we work to affect is an intergenerational pursuit — one that calls us to courage, commitment, and community with one another, as well as those who came before us. Lucas Johnson honors the radical hope of the leaders of the black freedom struggle.

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March 26, 2016

Reliquary: Histories Incarnate

Written by Martha Park

This year, Easter falls a week before the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination. As we draw nearer to both, a writer revisits her family’s story of the night Dr. King was killed, forty-eight years ago.

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February 1, 2015

Not Perfect, But Heroic: Humanizing Our Heroes

Written by Ebele Mogo

A young woman of Nigerian descent grew up thinking of Dr. King as "distant American hero." On this first day of Black History Month, she shares how she came to understand this American icon differently — and how his complex + contradictory human side creates an opening for all of us to be heroic, and not perfect.

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