Martin Luther King Jr. and wife Coretta Scott King (a singer herself), playing piano in their home with two of their children.
The 2020s have been nothing if not tumultuous. But it's during tumult that man's mettle is tested — and where the iron of his artistry is sharpened. Martin Luther King Jr. used his instrument of oratory to passionately but civilly call for a redress of grievances and appeal to the concept of the human experience as a shared endeavor, and he knew music to be an almost supernaturally powerful medium through which to reach humanity's sense of justice and fairness via its soul.
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