Honoring a civil rights icon while a fascist takes power

President Donald J. Trump walks from the White House Monday evening, June 1, 2020, to St. John’s Episcopal Church, known as the church of Presidents
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On January 20, 2025, we experience a political planetary alignment of sorts. Though his birthday was on January 15, the United States will commemorate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s national holiday. Following the recent death of Jimmy Carter, our 39th President, flags throughout the nation – including in Washington, D.C., over the Capitol, White House, and other public buildings – will remain at half-staff.

The official inauguration of the nation’s 47^th president, Donald John Trump, will also be held.

And here, the confluence ends. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated his entire life to promoting peace and civil rights for people of color and other marginalized groups. He based his actions on his assertion that, “There can be no justice without peace, and there can be no peace without justice.

On December 14, 1967, Dr. King chanted these words outside a California prison that was holding Vietnam War protesters. In his commitment and passion for justice, and in his inimical and profound way, he understood several connecting strands: “I see these two struggles as one struggle.”

King argued…

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