How do Black high school and college students in Charlotte view MLK? We asked 8.

Every January, a third Monday of the month approaches, and a not-insignificant segment of the population takes pleasure in this realization: Oh yeah, I forgot — we get Martin Luther King Day off!

Which is natural, of course. Who doesn’t appreciate a three-day weekend?

Frequently lost in the shuffle is meaningful reflection of MLK and the massive contributions to the Civil Rights Movement he made in the mid-1960s, prior to his assassination in April 1968…

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