The National Civil Rights Museum
at the Lorraine Motel, Memphis.
A black-and-white photo
shows Jesse Jackson
reading the Chicago Daily Defender:
“King Murdered!”
Those were dark days.
Before Wi-Fi,
before smartphones,
before Twitter.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
