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Monday, January 16, 2006


Martin Luther King Day
Bernard Hibbitts at 11:37 AM

Today JURIST celebrates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a powerful and evocative op-ed by Ben Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law entitled Heeding MLK's Call to Action. Ben's father Griffith Davis, a noted photographer, went to Morehouse College with King in the 1940s and the two kept in touch during the civil rights movement. Ben's link to King is personal.

On what would have been King's 76th birthday, Ben urges us to recommit ourselves to the principles Dr. King proclaimed, and to take up again the causes of social justice and human dignity which lately seem to have been forgotten, even by some of those ostensibly liberated by the more open standards and polices King helped to bring about. His words - and Dr. King's call - are a important challenge to complacency and careerism at a time when America would seem to have lost its way.



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