Sandy Banks: What Martin Luther King taught me about 'good hair' and Black pride
by Sandy Banks, Los Angeles Times
Jan 18, 2022
2 minutes
Every January, as I read and listen to the tributes to Martin Luther King Jr., I think not only about what Dr. King gave the world, but also about what he gave me personally.
On his 1963 visit to Cleveland, Dr. King spoke from the back of a flatbed truck at a park not far from our neighborhood. My mother, who'd grown up in Alabama during the reign
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