Jelani Cobb | Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., Fifty Years After His Death




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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker
Cobb writes: "Occasionally, a particular year transcends its function as a temporal marker to become shorthand for all the tumult that occurred within its parameters."
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