If I’ve been blessed to have another 10 years, never, ever, ever have I seen or will there be another Martin Luther King. Never, ever. The baddest dude on the Earth.”
The& Stanford Report& noted that Clarence Jones, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s personal attorney, advisor, and friend, said this with tears in his eyes when he spoke at Stanford University earlier this month in an event called “An Evening of Living History.” The conversation with Jones, which was held on Jones’s 93rd& birthday, was part of a series of events at the university celebrating King’s birthday and the King Holiday. Stanford is home to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, and the MLK Institute said they wished to use this year’s events to “‘reintroduce’ Martin Luther King, Jr. and the ambitious agenda of his later years”—years Jones saw firsthand.
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