Martin Luther King, Jr’s “A Testament of Hope” and Our Current Moment

Matthew Teutsch
5 min readJan 18, 2021

Last Friday, I sat down with Marie Cochran, curator of the Affriclacian Artist Project, at the Lillian E. Smith Center to record an episode of “Dope with Lime.” We sat there, on the ground where Smith worked, on what would have been Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 92nd birthday and talked about King, Smith, and memory. Preparing for our discussion, I read King’s “A Testament of…

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Matthew Teutsch

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