America’s political process is locked in a contentious stalemate that reflects deep, race-based divisions.
Some pessimistic Americans believe that aptly describes the United States of 2012. Yet it’s a far more fitting assessment of the United States of 1962.
And thanks to an extraordinary, Georgia-born preacher, we’re a far more united — and much fairer — nation today than when his epic life was cut brutally short in 1968.