<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: What to Read This Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Today, we reflect on the legacy of the civil-rights leader amid a pandemic that has disproportionately devastated Black communities—and as the country faces the ongoing threat of white-supremacist violence.
by Caroline Mimbs Nyce
Jan 18, 2021
1 minute
Today, we reflect on the legacy of the civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. amid a pandemic that has disproportionately devastated Black communities—and as the country faces the ongoing threat of white-supremacist violence.
“This year’s celebration feels like it, told me. “So on this occasion, I’m thinking about King’s radical resistance against disenfranchisement and white-supremacist violence, and about how those forces created structures that still carry on today.”
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