Martin Luther King Day: From Dream to Living Legacy
/From Dream to Living Legacy: 3 Voices Living The Dream - Part I
By Lily Jones
On January 17, our community gathered on the day of Martin Luther Kings assassination. We are honoring those of us in Minnesota and ancestor homelands that we are now occupying. We are honoring the Dakota people who were forcibly exiled from the land because of the aggressive and persistent colonialism. We are both honoring the ancestors and the land itself.
In addition, today is a day we recognize unfinished business of social justice on Martin Luther King’s celebration. Today brings the history that connects us all because we are all in this moment together. The poem by Maya Angelou: Still I Rise brings us together in unexpected ways. Maya Angelou’s birthday is the day of Martin Luther King’s assassination. There are connections there that will forever keep us home. The home comes from a very deep place. Sometimes we don’t see it because we are caught up in our own mind, world, and how we think things should be - but we are here together. We are all the legacy of Martin Luther King.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s: I Have a Dream Speech
Essential Conversations is an opportunity to all gather in a community of support and collaboration. When we bring our voices, we open and embrace the voices of everyone. During todays session we examined:
What is your story?
How can your story, your living legacy “rise up” to encourage a freer, more equal, more just, and more loving world in honor of Dr. King’s dream?.
