Every year, on Martin Luther King Day, NPR plays Dr. King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech from the March on Washington in its entirety. I have made my children listen to it many times. Although we all know the key lines, which will be played over and over on the holiday, it is really worth listening to in full, both for its content, as well as its execution. We clearly have no public figure today with Dr. King's rhetorical skill.
One of the things that makes the speech so inspirational today is that Dr. King was largely prophetic. He tragically predicted in Memphis in 1968, that although God had "allowed [him] to go up to the mountain" and look over to see "the Promised Land," he would not let him "get there" with us.
Governor Charlie Baker recently broke new ground by making Massachusetts the first state in the nation to make lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered-owned businesses the beneficiaries of government set-asides.
The new "supplier diversity" order means that in a few years, a certain percentage of contracts entered into by the Commonwealth will have to be set-aside for LGBT businesses.
