Today we honor the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His vision and courage defined the Civil Rights Movement and fundamentally shaped the fight for racial and economic justice.
His vision continues to serve as a guide for all other social justice movements to this day. And, as far as we’ve come to Dr.
King’s “beloved community,” even in 2022, there are still so many obvious ways that we continue to fall short. In 1964, Dr. King called poverty an “evil that plagues the modern world,” and these words still ring true almost 60 years later.
This is especially true for Black people and other communities of color, LGBTQ folks, young people, immigrants and asylum seekers, and intersections of these identities.