Over the years that I've lived in the U.S., I've tried to honor the intention of various national holidays. I often fail to do so -- but today was a different matter. My housemates and I spent part of our meeting tonight to reflect on MLK. I was unexpectedly moved by my housemate's reading of the children's book My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/a>. Getting a glimpse into MLK (\"ML\" to his sister) before he became an iconic international figure made that much more sympathetic to his life and the conditions of America 40 years ago.<\/p>\n

We then listened to excerpts from his \"I have a dream speech\"<\/a>. I was hoping that we'd be able to access the entire speech. I quickly found the full text but at first couldn't find the audio of the speech. With a few more rounds of reformulating google searches, I finally did find the complete audio for the speech<\/a>. Listen to the whole speech when you have a chance -- it's worth 17 minutes of your life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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