People always want to bring up the “I Have a Dream” speech on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but I’ve never been able to read that one through. More eloquent to my mind is the open letter he wrote to white church leaders from Birmingham Jail, where he’d been imprisoned for marching for civil rights. The local white pastors in Birmingham called the protests “unwise and untimely” and labeled Dr. King an outsider and troublemaker, since he’d come over from Atlanta to help lead the march.
Why Black Women Can't Even Have a Miscarriage in Peace in This Country
When Roe v. Wade, the legal precedent that established women's reproductive rights for fifty years, came crashing down, Black women knew they would be the…