Every year on this day set aside for celebrating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., I make time to listen to or read his famous "I Have a Dream Speech." I encourage you today to read or watch the roughly seventeen-minute speech that King gave over fifty years ago. He articulates a …
The Continuing Relevance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
On this day celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr., I want to remind us of one of the most significant writings by Martin Luther King, Jr., his letter from a Birmingham jail. Written after King's arrest, along with 50 others, on April 12, 1963, as part of the Birmingham Campaign to shine a spotlight on the …
Matthew Erickson 