Reflecting on the progress of civil rights ten years since the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr. inscribed an article entitled “Next Stop: The North.” He wrote, “the South… in this past decade experienced the birth of human dignity - eating in restaurants, studying...
Martin Luther King Jr.’s sermon “A Knock at Midnight” addresses the need for all Christians to align their hearts to the work of God. Given multiple times throughout 1967, the message from this sermon left many christians living in America asking themselves about the purpose...
Many quote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for stating, “Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education”. It’s easy to envision a seasoned civil rights leader compelling the world to critically think about the chief end of schooling. However, it wasn’t a man but...
Waiting for liberation is the privilege of the privileged. Those who sit comfortably atop the world’s hierarchy can tell those on the bottom to “wait just a little longer for liberation” because they, themselves, do not have to go home to hungry faces. The privileged...
The Martin Luther King, Jr. that must be recovered in our collective memory is the prophet of 1966 and 1967. Kat has written about his speech from 1967 decrying the militarism (of the war against communism in Vietnam) that led to an underfunding of domestic...
“I’m so happy that I didn’t sneeze,” preaches Martin Luther King Jr. on April 3, 1968, at Mason Temple Church of God in Christ. On February 1, 1968, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, two Memphis garbage collectors, were crushed to death by a malfunctioning truck....
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood in the pulpit at Riverside Church in New York City (a church where he...
Dr. King first gave his “Other America” speech at Stanford University in 1967 and addressed topics surrounding race, poverty and economic injustices that were, and still are, plaguing American society. In Dr. King’s speech he begins by painting the picture of the two Americas that exist...
If someone would have asked me that question last year, I probably would have been at a loss for words. A loss because I felt like I was lost in the mix of lesson plans, pressure from administration, and students that just seemed to love...
Author: Michael Gong, MTR Grad A few years ago, my church, which lives and meets in Mitchell Heights, was studying the Gospel account of Matthew. We made a simple, but foundational observation: the overwhelming majority of transformational interactions that Jesus had with people began with him...