At 6:05 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. He was 39 years old. Today he would have been 93 years old. He had been in Memphis, TN, supporting the striking sanitation workers, most of whom were African-American.
Today people are still poor, Amazon and Starbucks workers are working to make progress in being able to organize unions. And Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's vote is before the Senate to become the first Black Woman on the Supreme Court. We have come a long way, Dr. King, and yet so far to go. We remember what you said, "Darkness cannot drive our darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that."
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