King in the Wilderness

The HBO documentary shows that things haven’t changed much in America from the last year in MLK’s life. We’re still grappling with the same question that he posed then. Where do we go from here?

I watched the HBO documentary King in the Wilderness last night. It was a first person account of the last year of MLK’s life from those in his inner-circle who are still alive.

A dozen years removed from his entrance onto the national stage with his leadership during the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and just a few years since the historic I Have a Dream …