Last month we commemorated The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. You may or may not have been around when Dr. King was living, however it’s likely that you have an MLK story. In my case, he was my first invitation to find an off-ramp on the Hatred Highway. He educated, he illustrated, he sang, he led, and he preached his way through hatred and long held beliefs of inequality and racism. He was not a perfect man. He was not the only incredible person on that journey. In fact, there were many incredible people with Dr. King on that journey, many whose names we were never taught and will never know. People who continued his work of Peace and the fight for Civil Rights.
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