Monthly Archives: January 2023

Rev. Dr. King was most certainly a man who was “blues in the life of the mind and jazz in the ways of the world” (to quote Dr. Cornel West). I close out the King in Context posts with one … Continue reading →

The same Rev. Dr. King that said, “Let me say as I’ve always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. . . . So I will continue to condemn riots, and continue … Continue reading →

The Rev. Dr. King that said this in 1963, “The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy.”  wrote this in 1968: … Continue reading →

The Rev. Dr. King that wrote: “Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a moulder of consensus.” ~ Where Do We Go From Here? (1968) also said this: “Nowhere is the tragic tendency to conform more … Continue reading →

It has become important to me that I not allow myself to package Rev. Dr. King’s legacy in a handful of quotes. It’s too easy to make him palatable and dishonor the struggle. The same Rev. Dr. King that said: … Continue reading →