A wide, softly lit illustration shows Martin Luther King Jr. standing on a rocky mountaintop, shaking hands with a younger Jesse Jackson. Jackson has a rounded Afro and mustache, leaning forward slightly with a relaxed posture, one hand in his pocket. MLK stands more upright and grounded, slightly larger in scale, anchoring the scene. Between them in the sky appears the text: “Welcome to the mountaintop, Brother Jesse.” The sky is muted and timeless, with clouds below and no clear time of day.
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was taken from us.
But the view from the mountaintop didn’t go with him.
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