Darkness is in the Land
How we lift our nation from the quicksand
Every year, I reread important works by Martin Luther King Jr. Not the highlight quotes. I do my best to read something substantive, in context. Some years, it’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” in which King talks about his disappointment — not with the racists who would rather see him dead, but with the white men and women he didn’t think were doing e…