Telegram - Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944

A paraphrased quote attributed to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., says "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." The current zeitgeist has cast a pall of perplexing uncertainty for many over the status of the soul of this nation. It is a seismic moment of truth for us all. The malaise of mistrust. The nightmare of division and hyper-partisanship. The maelstrom of racial and economic inequity and injustice. The ongoing crisis of the pandemic and other issues that cloud the atmosphere of democracy.

And yet, through it all, a fundamental tenet of that democracy rema...