ATLANTA — Tuesday marked 55 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis.
The King Center hosted a wreath-laying ceremony Tuesday to celebrate his life and legacy.
But before that, his daughter, the Rev. Dr. Bernice King sat on a panel that discussed how the Black community overcomes economic injustices that MLK was fighting decades ago.
Dr. Russ Wiggington, president of the National Civil Rights Museum, joined King for the dialogue about economic injustices surrounding the Black community.
It was something that Bernice King said her father was fighting for before he was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
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“We have made very little progress as it relates to the issue of poverty, of the economic injustice, and I think this is a time for us to reflect on what he was doing and recommitting ourselves to doubling up our efforts,” King said.
But according to Wigginton, efforts won’t mean anything if the entire nation isn’t ready to have tough conversations about American history.
Slavery lasted 250 years, and he said it played a huge role in why we’re still talking about economic injustices today.
“There’s no way you can step back into how economic justice manifests itself without talking about slavery. And we as a country have yet to do that in a comprehensive, civil way that infiltrates the complexity that topic deserves,” Wiggington said.
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