Memphis, TN –Over the weekend, as the world took time out to celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., I also found my way to Memphis.  While there I was able to stop by the Lorraine Hotel where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was hit with […]

TBR — Organizers for the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Dedication announced that the ceremony has been rescheduled for mid-October. However, before the ceremony convenes and the throngs migrate to the National Mall  again — there should be certain requisites in place. The celebrated affair was scheduled to take place on Aug. 28, 2011, the […]

A majority of Americans say Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of racial equality has been realized in the USA, although a significant divide between Black and white people’s perception of equality and race relations still exists, a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll suggests. The Poll found that most Americans– 90% of whites and 85% of blacks– […]

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  Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.  Martin Luther […]