The Friday Comment

Sixty-two years ago Martin Luther King, Jr. was invited by his mentor Benjamin Mays, president of Morehouse College, to address the 1959 graduating class of his alma mater. The title of his address was “Remaining Woke Through a Great Revolution.”  King wanted to make sure that the Morehouse graduates understood the era that they were living in was extraordinary because the civil rights movement and African decolonization occurred together changing a three hundred racialized history with African peoples and black Americans; it was a sea change in world history, he believed.