Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White wants a new MLK statue at state Capitol herald-review.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from herald-review.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White wants to put a new statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the state Capitol and is pledging his financial support for the project.
In a press release Tuesday, White committed to giving $5,000 to a fund to design and build a new statue of King on the grounds of the Capitol. The new statue would replace a current statue across the street from the east side of the Capitol at the corner of Capitol Avenue and Second Street next to the Illinois State Library.
White said the current statue of King does not properly represent King.
Marian Anderson sings for the Empress of Japan in 1953 May 4 06:40 am JST May 4 | 10:24 am JST
On April 18, 1953, Bob Krauss, writing for the
Honolulu Advertiser, attended a Marian Anderson concert. Tickets had been sold out for weeks, and as Krauss listened to Anderson, a contralto, he couldn’t help but become spellbound as she sang. “What you notice first are her eyes. They’re like windows you can look through into the place her music comes from. They can sparkle and they can be coy but usually, to me anyway, they reflected an understanding of suffering…” For Krauss, it was Anderson’s “spirituals,” especially her hymn, “They Crucified My Lord,” which “moved me most of all.”