I recently learned that our beloved, quasily deified and totally assassinated civil rights leader was a serial plagiarizer, both throughout his academic career — including his Doctoral Thesis at Boston U — and in his speeches. This isn’t new news, first coming to light when his wife, Coretta Scott King, released much of his scholastic papers to Stanford in the late 1980s. It is, however, refreshing for me when heroes become flesh and grounded, when ideas of perfection are desolved within universally flawed human experience. It makes me a feel a bit better about myself. Link
