What we, African immigrants in the United States, owe Dr. King
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU
Thirty-six years ago this August 27, I landed at John F. Kennedy airport in New York as a prospective student in one of America’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning, The Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, in pursuit of the biggest dream of my life at that time: to further my education and start a new career. Little did I know, arriving in Washington, D.C., the final destination of my historical journey, on the bright Saturday afternoon of August 27, 1983, that my arrival coincided with the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the historical August 28, 1963 March on Washington during which the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had publicly revealed his Dream, that of Justice for Black Americans.