>>>Just drove to the bank....not realizing today is MLK day.
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>>Just heard the whole "I Have a Dream" speech on NPR. Wow! I'd heard pieces of over the years, but never the whole speech. Worth listening. I imagine it'll turn on the "Talk of the Nation" page tomorrow.
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>So many have tried to copy his cadence of preachers. (His father was a preacher in Atlanta, as you know). He found his voice as a young man and lived the rest of his life in the public eye, as Taylor Branch put it in his soaring biography. I have been to the mountaintop. I fear nothing now. He said those words the night before he died. In a perfect world he would be in Washington tomorrow.

The History Channel has been airing the MLK documentary all day (hosted by Tom Brokaw). It's really long but really amazing. Even after studying his life in school, I learned quite a bit.