“A man has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his own individual concerns, to the broader concerns of all humanity.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the New Covenant Baptist Church, in Chicago, Illinois, on April 9, 1967.

Dr. King would be murdered in Memphis less than one year later.

Today on Midday, on this Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday and MLK Day of Service, we’ll meet three people for whom every day is a day of service...

Tom's final guest today is Rev. Alvin Hathaway, who recently retired as pastor of Baltimore's historic Union Baptist Church. The veteran community organizer is now working to restore a historic school building in his West Baltimore community — the old PS 103, aka Henry Highland Garnet School — into a new community facility to be known as the Justice Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center. Rev. Dr. Hathaway joins us on Zoom.

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