More than 50 years after his death, the words and tributes to Martin Luther King Jr. might seem redundant. They are not. The meaning of King’s life and message ring true today, as profound and universal as ever. Following King’s assassination on April 4, 1968, an editorial in The Washington Post read: “To each generation of mankind is given one or two rare spirits, touched by some divinity, who see visions and dream dreams.

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