Nearly 51 years ago, on February 4, 1968 – and just 63 days before his assassination – Dr. King delivered his famous The Drum Major Instinct sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA. (You may listen to the entire sermon here.) Excerpts from this...
This year at Hanley Elementary a kindergartener was hit by a car while she was walking home from school. I still cringe at the thought of losing a student in the Hanley community. If I still cringe as a 27 year old teacher, then it...
Reflecting on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a beloved Morehouse Man, I chose this speech because it speaks directly to the current reality of our lives as some of us transition into our own classrooms for the first time, some...
We all have that one student. For me, it was a group of 5th grade boys...
On Thursday, March 25 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the state capital of Alabama in downtown Montgomery before a crowd of 25,000 people. This moment was the conclusion of the civil rights protest known as the Selma March where nearly...
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...
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....