Human rights activist Martin Luther King III was at a Rockland college yesterday to speak about social justice and academics. A large crowd assembled at St. Thomas Aquinas College’s Center for Social Justice in Sparkill to hear King speak in what was billed as a “Fireside Chat” about the intersection of social justice and building communities, part of the school’s commemoration of Black History Month. Prior to the event, King spoke with local media, and said the division that has gotten worse in recent years can be overcome, if the people who disagree sit down and dialog honestly with each other…
King was just ten years old when his father, Doctor Martin Luther King Junior, was assassinated.