The Words of Martin Luther King Jr. Reverberate in a Tumultuous Time
Dr. King’s speeches have particular resonance today amid a year of sickness and death, Black Lives Matter protests and the storming of the Capitol.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. waving to the crowd during the March on Washington in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial, where he gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.Credit.Central Press/Getty Images
Published Jan. 18, 2021Updated Jan. 19, 2021
He lived and died in a time of tumult and a racial awakening, so perhaps it is no surprise that the 35th national celebration of the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday has particular resonance amid one of the most traumatic seasons in memory: A raging pandemic. Protest and civil unrest after the killing of Black people by the police. A momentous election. And an insurrection.
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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has never been shy about sharing her love for her alma mater, Howard University, and her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, the country s first Black sorority, founded at Howard on January 15, 1908. CBS This Morning: Saturday co-host Michelle Miller (also a Howard graduate) went back to talk to some of the women who joined the sorority with Harris, about how those early years shaped her. We re very tight, said Monique Poydras, who, with Dr. Elaine Witter and Carla Mannings, joined AKA. All were initiated with Harris back in 1986.
Harris won t give a farewell speech on the Senate floor, since the upper chamber isn t scheduled to reconvene until Tuesday, the eve of Inauguration Day. As I resign from the Senate, I am preparing to take an oath that would have me preside over it, she wrote in the.