Nearly 60 years have elapsed since Martin Luther King Jr. made the iconic and one of the most powerful speeches in the history of civil liberties and human rights movements. "I have a dream…" is a touching speech, a powerful protest against racial discrimination, yet his grandchildren are still judged by the color of their skin, rather than by their character and contributions to society.
Nearly 60 years have elapsed since the late Martin Luther King Jr made his touching "I have a dream" speech to protest racial discrimination, yet his grandchildren are still judged by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character.
There has been a bloodbath in the United States in the past few months.
From 2003 to 2020, there had been no federal executions, and only four going all the way back to my birth in 1959. In the 230 years since records began in 1790, we had averaged only marginally more than one federal execution a year.
However, in the last months of his tenure, President Donald Trump presided over the deaths of 13 prisoners, with six conducted after he lost the election. Typically for a president prone to excess, Trump broke various records, though none was particularly salutary: the most federal executions in seven months in history, and the first time a president had ever set executions after losing an election.