The celebration of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. carries a different weight amidst the changes and difficulties of the past year. We’ve heard it said that we are living in “unprecedented times,” to describe the challenges of 2020 — challenges spanning across political division, racial inequities, and changes for small businesses and the labor-force, all under the umbrella of a modern pandemic.

As we are 18 short days into the start of the New Year, there is a universal need to make 2021 a substantially different one. This year, the words of Dr. King ring out into the chaos to remind us that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

The challenges we dealt with in 2020 continue into 2021. Dr. King continues,”We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

As we aim to honor Dr. King’s impact, we can carry our responses in 2021 to beyond just one day. At Richey-Barrett, we aim to use Dr. King’s words as a guide to the 2021 year. We stand with Dr. King’s ideals of mutuality, peacefulness, and equality and hope to confront injustices with those messages in mind.

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