Pastor James Dixon calls it “otherness,” loving others enough to die for their benefit. That’s what he credits to the late Martin Luther King Jr. nearly 50 years after the civil rights leader’s death.
“He allowed his life to enter into the lives of others and not leave them the way he found them,” Dixon told Baptist Press in advance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 15. “If we’re going to keep his memory going, we’ve got to have that same type of otherness. And that otherness comes because we
The first Martin Luther King Jr. holiday of Donald Trump’s presidency is taking place amid a racial firestorm of Trump’s own making.
In the same week that he honored King by making a national park out of the ground where King was born and preached until his death, Trump denigrated practically the entire African diaspora, and left many Americans headed into the civil rights icon’s birthday convinced that the leader of their country is a racist.
For African-Americans particularly, this latest ins
