Out of the flames. Our process took us all the way to Benin, Nigeria. Using the same ancient bronze casting process passed down from generation to generation. It took us months to master the process but we got it in the end.
Trust the process.
If you’re looking for champions, look to TX-30! I was honored to celebrate South Oak Cliff and DeSoto High School Football teams on the House floor for their incredible championship seasons. Go Bears and go Eagles!
As we kick off King Holiday week, I am thinking not only of my father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but also of my mother, Coretta Scott King—the architect and steward of the King legacy.
My mother understood that my father’s work could not live only in memory. She insisted it must be protected, taught, and practiced. Because of her vision, The King Center exists not simply to honor what was, but to equip people to live out what must be.
Together, my parents gave the world more than words. They offered a philosophy and a way of life—rooted in nonviolence, justice, truth, and love—that calls us to create the Beloved Community in our time.
As this week begins, my hope is that we move beyond remembrance and recommit ourselves to action: to learning, to practicing nonviolence, and to building the kind of world my parents believed was possible—one grounded in dignity, compassion, and shared responsibility.
I hope you will join us—virtually or in person—as we reflect, learn, and continue this work together: https://t.co/8ihcV5N5Cr
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On this day in 1806, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and later Emperor of Haiti, was assassinated.
He led armies to defeat France to become the first free colonial society. It was the greatest slave uprising since Spartacus.
It was a powerful reminder that Black liberation Could be achieved.
Rest in Power Comrade Assata Shakur.
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.” ~ Assata Shakur