On this day, the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination, I’m wondering if our society is where he envisioned it would be a half a century after he made the ultimate sacrifice for equal rights. On March 7, 1965, 600 activists decided to call attention to the civil rights movement by marching from…
Category: Civil Rights
#MeToo
It happened to me at age sixteen. Near closing time at the neighborhood drugstore where I clerked the front counter, the cafe owner next door poked his head in to say I was welcome to his leftover apple turnovers. I always bought one to go with my lunch. After we locked up, I dashed over…