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Category: The Deep South

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, as well as northern Florida, eastern Tennessee, and parts of Arkansas

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Even though it was his birthday yesterday . . . Happy belated Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday! Many people all over America have the day off today, but I hope that people will remember why we celebrate the man’s birthday. (Even though, in Alabama, today is officially jointly an acknowledgment of both King’s and Robert E. Lee’s birthdays . . .) King encouraged all of us to live up to our moral potential. In America, we are often encouraged to live up to our career-success potential or to economic potential,… Read more Martin Luther King, Jr. Day