MLK Day: Rev. Bernice King calls for change, bold action instead of just words

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America has honored Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday for nearly four decades yet still hasn’t fully embraced and acted on the lessons from the slain civil rights leader, his youngest daughter said Monday.

The Rev. Bernice King, who leads The King Center in Atlanta, said leaders — especially politicians — too often cheapen her father’s legacy into a "comfortable and convenient King" offering easy platitudes.

FILE - Rev. Al Sharpton delivers remarks at the National Action Network's Martin Luther King, Jr. day breakfast at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, Jan. 16, 2023. FILE - Martin Luther King III speaks to supporters at the National Action Network's Annual Martin Luther King Day Breakfast on Jan, 16, 2023, in Washington, DC.In Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu talked about a fight for the truth in an era of hyper-partisanship and misinformation.

Other kits being assembled highlighted Temple University Hospital’s "Fighting Chance" program and included materials to enable immediate response to victims at the scene of gunfire, organizers said. Recipients are to be trained in the use of the materials, which include tourniquets, gauze, chest seals and other items to treat critical wounds, they said.

"His unshakable faith, powerful nonviolent activism and his vision for peace and justice in our world altered the course of history," Rachel Talbot Ross said in a statement. Talbot Ross is also the daughter of Maine’s first black lawmaker, and a former president of the Portland NAACP.

 

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Hmm. What would her father say about the breakdown of the nuclear family in the black community? What would her father say about 70% plus out of wedlock birthrate in the black community? The breakdown of the nuclear family is what led to much going wrong for the black community

I’m glad she said it !!!

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