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Opinion: Why we can’t wait for reparations

Avatar photo by Rev. Dr. Heber Brown June 18, 2025June 26, 2025

In his landmark book entitled “Why We Can’t Wait,” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. recounted the 1963 events of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama, and beyond. The book’s title is fashioned as a response to criticism that King received for helping to lead such efforts at a time when racial strife and […]

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