Baltimore Fishbowl is pausing to reflect and remember the life and legacy of the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who helped pave the way for the ongoing fight against racism and injustice in all forms.
King demonstrated the power of civil disobedience and the 1st Amendment right to protest, even when his exercising of his rights was met with racist vitriol, arrests, jailing, bombing of his family’s home, and ultimately his assassination.
While jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, King wrote one of his most famous texts from his cell on April 16, 1963.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds,” King wrote in his Letter from Birmingham Jail.
As the poison of injustice continues to inflict harm on our communities, the difficult but necessary work to stop the hurt and heal those wounds — to bring justice and equity for all — persists as well.
Baltimore Fishbowl will not be publishing any new stories today. We will resume publishing Tuesday, Jan. 20.
