You've probably heard
this news as I did this morning.
Coretta Scott King, first known as the wife of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., then as his widow, then as an avid proselytizer for his vision of racial peace and non-violent social change died Monday night, according to Andrew Young, the former United Nations ambassador who is an old friend of the King family. She was 78 and had been in failing health for years following a stroke.
From all indications, she died peacefully and quietly, with little pain. As Andrew Young said, one of her daughters had tried to wake her, but Coretta had already made her passage.
This diary is for others to pay tribute to her and her husband Martin and perhaps, to imagine how we could take up their mantles in the shadow of the Alito confirmation, and fight on no matter what. Even when the King children seem to pay lip service to human as well as civil rights...