Half a century ago,Martin Luther King was assassinated and the civil rights movement lost its greatest leader. Here, prominent black British cultural figures discuss the power of his wordsNovelist and Scottish poet laureate[br]
Growing up in my house in Glasgow, or there were certain people who meant the world to me. They brought the whole wide world to my house in whatever kind of weather,on dreich days, or when the snow was falling, and in the spring when the cherry blossom my parents planted when they adopted my brother was blooming. Household names – Angela Davis,Nelson Mandela, Madame Allende, and Martin Luther King. Our house held their names,like names of members of an extended family. We posted letters to the prisoners in South Africa. We marched against apartheid. We went to hear Madame Allende speak after the assassination of President Allende in 1973.Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk