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If you’d like a bit more than the occasional inspirational quotes in January and April, here’s some books that I have found very insightful. (There are definitely more great ones out there. These are just the few I’ve read.) I mean, you might not, because we totally live in a post-racial society now, but just in case.

Martin Luther King Jr. - Why We Can’t Wait and Strength to Love

Also, his Beyond Vietnam speech which you can read and/or listen to here.

Patricia Raybon - My First White Friend: Confessions of Race, Love, and Forgiveness

I’m currently working through a collection of essays called Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought

On my shelf, still to read: Emerson + Smith - Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America

Dr. King was a flawed man. He did not always live up to his own proclamations of equality, especially when it came to women. However, he did present some of the most profound ideas of nonviolence, anti-materialism, and anti-militarism to the masses. And a lot of people listened. It’s time we took another look.