More than 50 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the United States remains divided by issues of race and racism, economic inequality as well as unequal access to justice.
The name Martin Luther King Jr. is iconic in the United States. President Barack Obama mentioned King in both his Democratic National Convention nomination acceptance and victory speeches in 2008
King was foremost a minister who pastored to a local church throughout his career, even while he was doing national civil rights work.
Martin Luther King Jr. has come to be revered as a hero who led a nonviolent struggle to reform and redeem the United States.
Death – along with taxes – is one of life’s few certainties. Despite this inevitability, most people dread thinking and talking about when, how or under what conditions they might die.
At school board meetings across the country in 2021, parents engaged in physical altercations, shouted at school board members, and threatened them as well.
