MLK III Tells STAC Audience Fight for Racial Justice a 'Lifelong Struggle’
Martin Luther King III Monday told an audience of approximately 200 people at St. Thomas Aquinas College (STAC) in Sparkill that the fight for racial justice has been a lifelong struggle for his family.
King, the eldest son of the late Civil Rights’ icons Rev, Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King, described that struggle as preserving his parents’ legacy in the face of a changing political climate in America. He said, “They taught us about the transformative power of non-violent social change, the strategy which won all of the great victories for the modern Civil Rights movement.”
King’s appearance at STAC was made possible in part through a donation from Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R).
Pictured here with Martin Luther King III (center) Monday at STAC are: Godwin Uwechue, O&R’s Director of Gas Technical Service, right, and, left, Beaumont Morton, Social Justice Program Officer, Consolidated Edison, O&R’s sister company.
About O&R
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R), a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc., one of the nation’s largest investor-owned energy companies, is a regulated utility. O&R provides electric service to approximately 300,000 customers in southeastern New York State (where its franchise name is Orange & Rockland) and northern New Jersey (where it’s Rockland Electric Company) and natural gas service to approximately 130,000 customers in New York.