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On King’s holiday, daughter calls for Jennely Winklaar y Geraldine
bold action over words Albertsz a sali reina di colegio EPI

A large group gathers to watch a wreath-laying ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Washington, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023.
Associated Press Page 11

By BILL BARROW servances of the 38th federal King holiday.
Associated Press King, gunned down in Memphis in 1968 as Program for royal visit to
ATLANTA (AP) — America has honored he advocated for better pay and working
Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holi- conditions for the city’s sanitation workers, Aruba focused on culture
day for nearly four decades yet still hasn’t would have celebrated his 94th birthday
fully embraced and acted on the lessons Sunday. and unique experience
from the slain civil rights leader, his young- Her voice rising and falling in cadences
est daughter said Monday. similar to her father’s, Bernice King be-
The Rev. Bernice King, who leads The King moaned institutional and individual rac-
Center in Atlanta, said leaders — espe- ism, economic and health care inequities,
cially politicians — too often cheapen her police violence, a militarized internation-
father’s legacy into a “comfortable and al order, hardline immigration structures
convenient King” offering easy platitudes. and the climate crisis. She said she’s “ex-
“We love to quote King in and around hausted, exasperated and, frankly, disap-
the holiday. ... But then we refuse to live pointed” to hear her father’s words about
King 365 days of the year,” she declared justice quoted so extensively alongside “so
at the commemorative service at Ebene- little progress” addressing society’s gravest
zer Baptist Church, where her father once problems.
preached.
The service, sponsored by the center and Continued on Page 2 Page 7
held at Ebenezer annually, headlined ob-