If you're reading this you are either:

a) At the MLK Conference and have made the wise decision to attend one of the workshops Project 2050 is putting on.

or

b) A regular visitor to our website.

Either way it's good to have you here, be it physically or digitally. We have a federal holiday to honor Dr. King for the work he, and countless others, did to ensure America lives up to its promise of 'liberty and justice for all.' In remembering the work that made Dr. King famous, though, we often forget what he devoted the last years of his life to: the all bit.

It's not enough to talk about inequality, we have to ask why that inequality exists, and in doing so we must examine how the systems in which we live - political, economic and cultural - contribute to the inequalities that exist to this day. Dr. King said, 'It is not enough to throw a coin to a beggar, but one must address the edifice that creates beggars.' In the celebration of the life and works of all those who fought, and died, in the struggle for civil rights in America and around the world, let's take the opportunity to do just that: turn a watchful and critical eye on the institutions that continue to perpetuate racism, sexism, poverty, discrimination and prejudice of any kind.

Enjoy your day on.