On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, ‘We have a long way to go before equality of opportunity is real for everyone’ In the years before and after the April 4, 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (“King”), the nation was roiled by racial discrimination, divisiveness and polarization. Sadly, these practices continue to this day. In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Ocean State Stories interviewed several local Black leaders to gauge their perspectives. “Why is equality so assiduously avoided?” King, from Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967 “When King died, the Black unemployment rate … Continue reading Fifty-six years on, we’ve still not reached King’s Promised Land