Leonard Pitts Jr.: Activism is not a popularity contest
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Sep 15, 2021
2 minutes
“He wears the clothes of a dissenter, but there’s a logo on his back.” — from “Damn It, Rose,” by Don Henley.
When he died, Martin Luther King was likely the most hated man in America.
This is a fact obscured by decades of veneration so intense that even conservatives now try to claim him as one of their own, but it’s
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