Opinion writer focusing on the intersection of social and cultural issues and politics
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. (Jonathan Capehart/The Washington Post) ((Jonathan Capehart/The Washington Post))
“You know, America, you just cannot stand good people. You just can’t tolerate it. Will not be tolerated.”
That was how Minnijean Brown-Trickey said she reacted to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. She became a part of the sweeping civil rights movement King led when she was 15 years old as one of the “the Little Rock Nine” who integrated Central High School in the Arkansas capital in 1957. “My heart was broken again,” Brown-Trickey told me in the latest episode of “Cape Up” recorded at the Annenberg Retreat at…
