Martin Luther King III Embraces Interfaith Effort to Rebuild Scotland A.M.E. Zion Church
Martin Luther King III, the son of revered civil rights icons Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, directly tied his parents’ dreams for America to the multi-faith initiative to rescue the historic Scotland African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Zion Church. King passionately spoke about the Potomac, Maryland church that formerly enslaved congregants built by hand. Yet it’s a modern challenge that caught his attention; flash flood waters in 2019 and additional weather damage, exasperated by the rerouting of a nearby road, threaten Scotland.
Martin Luther King Blvd. in Marshall closed after box truck leaks herbicide onto lanes
MARSHALL, Texas — A Marshall road is closed while emergency crews respond to a one-vehicle crash leaking herbicide onto the street. Marshall PD reported the crash occurred on Martin Luther King Blvd., just north of W. Houston St. Emergency crews are on the scene of the crash and said a large drum of herbicide is spreading across all lanes.
On this day in 1960
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested along with students after thousands conducted mass sit-ins at Rich’s Department Store and other Atlanta stores, causing 16 segregated lunch counters to shut down. The students, led by Lonnie C. King and Julian Bond, denounced segregation as contrary to democracy, only to have...