From the Asheville Citizen Times
How many of the 1,000-plus attendees at the 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast on Saturday knew they were paying $30 a pop only to squirm uncomfortably in their seats?
The invitation to squirm was by design, as keynote speaker Boyce Watkins delivered a reality check about true racial equality and asked the audience in the packed ballroom at the Grove Park Inn to re-examine whether they are truly living the principles of the late civil rights leader.Read the full article
How many of the 1,000-plus attendees at the 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast on Saturday knew they were paying $30 a pop only to squirm uncomfortably in their seats?
The invitation to squirm was by design, as keynote speaker Boyce Watkins delivered a reality check about true racial equality and asked the audience in the packed ballroom at the Grove Park Inn to re-examine whether they are truly living the principles of the late civil rights leader.Read the full article
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