Black leaders pay tribute to MLK on 55th anniversary of assassination
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 4, 2023
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was on his way to dinner in Memphis, Tenn. As he was standing on the balcony of his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel, he was fatally shot.
“Today, 55 years ago my life changed forever,” Rev. Bernice A. King, CEO of The King Center and King’s daughter, tweeted on Tuesday.
“At 5 years of age my father was violently taken from me and . . .
