Letter to the editor: Honor MLK Day by opposing Project 2025 plans

To honor Martin Luther King Jr. on January 20, and to be the loyal opposition to Trump’s Project 2025 plans, Middlebury’s local Indivisible group ([email protected]) invites concerned citizens to join us as a visible presence on the upper town green, Route 7, opposite the Middlebury Inn and Credit Union at the time of Trump’s inauguration, 12 noon, Monday, Jan. 20.

Equality is not equity. Dr. King made this point repeatedly. He argued that while white Americans were acquiring free land in the American West, Black Americans, Asians, and Latinos were cultivating that land with zero or little compensation.

39th in a series Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), MLK, did not only theorize about social ethics, he embodied it, and gave his life for it. The fundamental truth for which he gave his life is the principle of freedom and equality for all persons. It is … (read more)

39th in a seriesMartin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), MLK, did not only theorize about social ethics, he embodied it, and gave his life for it. The fundamental truth for which he gave his life is the principle of freedom and equality for all persons. It is … (read more)

BARNET — On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in the pulpit of the Riverside Church in Manhattan’s Upper West Side and delivered one of the most important and powerful speeches of his life. Despite counsel from many of his allies, King condemned … (read more)

Editor’s note: We include this speech by Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia — which he delivered on Aug. 26, 2011 — in memory of his passing last week. Lewis, one of the original Freedom Riders and a civil rights leader from the early 1960s, along with Martin Lut … (read more)