Through the ages, sages of myriad backgrounds have counseled – in various forms – that people must have their minds “right” for what is in front of them.
For many, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a shared point of reference for getting one’s mind “right” relative to the American Dream and it’s conceptual associate – the pursuit of happiness.
Each January since 1986, there has been a federal holiday honoring Dr. King, whose assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968 has the city inextricably interwoven with his legacy in a unique way.
With that connection in mind and as the decade of the 2010’s closed, The New Tri-State Defender reckoned that one measure of the last 10 years would be to review each of its January editions during that period.
In this – the first edition of the new year and of the new decade – we share our front pages of the 2010s with the thought that they yield pointers for determining and dealing with what is in front of us. We do so with limited commentary, wanting to give readers a reasonably clear path for drawing their own right-minded conclusions about where we go from here.
