When President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Martin Luther King Jr. told his wife, “This is what is going to happen to me also. I keep telling you, this is a sick society.” Nearly 53 years after King's own assassination, that sickness casts a shadow on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The federal holiday comes after a painful year for many Americans of color. The killing of George Floyd by police set off a summer of protest against racial injustice. Civil rights activist and Georgia Congressman John Lewis died in July. Even the pandemic seems to expose inequities in American society as Blacks are twice as likely to die and three times as likely to be hospitalized as compared to their white counterparts, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data on the coronavirus.