At service kicking off Du Bois festival, MLK Day speaker hits on complex roles of ‘agents of change’
From the packed parish room at First Congregational Church, a call was made for grace, compassion, love and fearlessness.
But one speaker at Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day interfaith service also dialed a wake-up call reminder of the messiness and reality of the struggle for all forms of equality, and the disservice done to a man when his legacy is enshrined without deeper context.
