Why We Honor Dr. Martin Luther King
Dr. King led the non-violent civil rights movement for racial equality beginning in 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He led several peaceful protests including the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycotts, the Selma-to-Montgomery marches and probably his most remembered, the March on Washington, D.C. in 1963, where he gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. […]
New Year’s Day: Looking Back, Looking Forward
January takes its name from the ancient Roman god Janus, god of beginnings. He was illustrated as having two faces, one front and one back. Thus he could see forward and backward simultaneously. The calendar for Western Civilization didn’t originally begin on January 1, but on March 1. January 1st was the day that new […]