Why MLK Must Be More Than Myth To Us

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By Carl Lewis

Had the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. survived the struggles of the civil rights movement and gone on to lead a long, healthy life, he would be waking up this weekend to his 82nd birthday. Instead, we have a national holiday in his name, and we celebrate his memory.

Keeping that memory alive will always be important to me. It is important to me just as it ought to be to any other African-American -- to any other American, period, really. But it is especially important to me because it takes me back to so many things I learned at the dinner table as a child. CONTINUE....