Who Knew MLK Supported Jackie Robinson and Was Pals with Muhammad Ali
<p>What would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. think if he was alive today?</p>
<p>Hopefully, he’d be excited about the election of the first African American president, the first female and African American vice president, and other elected and appointed African American officials.</p>
<p>How would he feel about the number of African American coaches in various sports? Is progress being made? Or is more effort required? Has the Rooney Rule of interviewing minority candidates for head coaching positions in the NFL helped?</p>
<p>Lots of people of all races came together to fight for equal rights and express their revulsion of George Floyd’s and Breonna Taylor’s murders and relief at Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict.</p>
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