Monday is the 39th annual Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and as it’s been for nearly four decades, the remaining family of Dr. King is calling on people to treat it as a “day on, not a day off.”
Atlanta’s King Center has dubbed the theme for 2024 as “Shifting the Cultural Climate through the Study and Practice of Kingian Nonviolence.”
WABE’s Julien Virgin spoke with Bernice A. King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and CEO of the King Center, about how she wants to see people honor her father’s legacy.
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