What Happens When MLK Is A National Icon (But Your Politics Don´t Really Agree)
(ArtsJournal Dance)

That Mike Pence and other standard-bearers within this movement can regularly lean on King´s legacy is a consequence of how the civil-rights leader has been canonized. When President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law, in 1983-reversing his own objections to the holiday, and earlier ones to King himself-he signaled that America had accepted King […]