Opinion: KBJ's confirmation is one of the beautiful moments MLK described
Opinion by Opinion by Peniel Joseph
The historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first African American woman to serve as a US Supreme Court justice will come 55 years to the week after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s most important speech, "A Time to Break Silence," where he came out against the Vietnam War.
King's April 4, 1967, address at the Riverside Church in New York City proved to be more than an anti-war speech. The sermon announced King, then 38, as nothing less than an American revolutionary, one who linked the Vietnam War to structures of racism, segregation and poverty at home and colonialism, inequality and violence abroad.
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Thursday, April 7th 2022 at 10:25PM
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