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Mark McCormick

Mark McCormick

Mark McCormick is the former executive director of The Kansas African American Museum, a member of the Kansas African American Affairs Commission and deputy executive director at the ACLU of Kansas.

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Mark McCormick speaks at the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration Jan. 12, 2023, at the Kansas Statehouse. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, no one should settle for ‘a piece of freedom’

By: - January 16, 2023

Some historians mark the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder as the end of the civil rights movement. Over an arc of 14 years — from the 1954 Brown Decision to King’s death in 1968 — the nation attempted to address its racial caste system. The same nation that launched a war on hunger and […]