How the Murder of Dr. King Changed My Life
And the lives of every young black person in this nation-state
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5 min readApr 4, 2022
This is a personal memoir of the night Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was viciously struck down in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. It’s a variation of the story I have written and previously published many times — always on or around April 4th:
