https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-martin-luther-king-health-We hope everyone enjoys the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. Today, as we remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., let us reflect on how we can be of service to others and our communities. Let us remember the contributions and sacrifices that Dr. King made to shape the country that we live in today. How can we contribute to the community that we live in? Helping those in need and promoting peace in our daily lives is continuing with the dream of Dr. King. Let us remember the nonviolence activism of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and become leaders furthering equality for all.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was an American Christian Minister and activist who became the most visible leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until 1968. He is best known for advancing civil rights trough nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971. The holiday was enacted at the federal level by legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington was rededicated for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.
According to the Chicago Tribune, health inequality remains among the greatest injustices of our time, and, as Dr. King penned in a “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” (Chicago Tribune 1/17/2020). Like Dr. King, let us commit ourselves anew to eradicating these death-dealing realities “until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream” (Amos 5:24).
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