MLK, and the Storming of the United States Capitol

Wednesday, January 20th, 2021, will be a tense moment for the United States. What should we expect? Will it be remembered as a day of new beginnings, or one of lingering strife and controversy that re-erupts into what happened last week on the National Mall, and then on to the US Capitol?

On August 28th, 1963, more than 200,000 people converged on the National Mall to hear, among others, John Lewis and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speeches. MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech of that day was a masterpiece of a call for action and change. It was one of…