In the summer of 1979, Stevie Wonder called Coretta Scott King to tell her about a dream he had.
“I said to her, you know, ‘I had a dream about this song. And I imagined in this dream I was doing this song. We were marching, too, with petition signs to make for Dr. King s birthday to become a national holiday,’ he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2011.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow was excited, but doubtful.
The song in question was Wonder’s 1980 release “Happy Birthday,” now lovingly known to African Americans as the Black version of the traditional song.
Carlisle residents urge council ‘to talk about the scars’ before solving racial equity
Updated Jan 16, 2021;
Posted Jan 16, 2021
Carlisle High School students Alex Thumma, Alli Kerr, Rachel Bell, Maggie Thomas, Ezeekai Thomas and Jaida Thomas attend the Black Lives Matter rally at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., June 3, 2020.
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Before Carlisle firms up a plan to tackle racial equity in the Cumberland County borough, some community members Saturday cautioned officials not to move too quickly.
“You have to address the wound before you can dress the wound,” said LaRock Hudson, borough resident for 20 years.
“We can’t talk about right now and how can we move forward until we talk about the scars.”
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