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Obama Swearing in on MLK Bible Ironic

By Dr. Alveda King
When President Barack Obama was inaugurated on January 21—Martin Luther King, Jr. Day—he placed his hand on Bibles once owned by my uncle, Reverend King, and by President Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator.

Eulogy for the Martyred Children

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this sermon at the funeral of the little girls who were killed on 15 September 1963 by a bomb as they attended the Sunday school of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Go Ahead. Call Me Extreme.

Representative Schumer revealed that the Democratic caucus plans to label the opposition and its Tea Party ideas as extreme. I know what it is like to be on the receiving end of that political denigration.

How To Evaluate Leadership

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”