Too Late for Prayin’

H. Michael Harvey, JD
5 min readJun 29, 2023

The Supreme Court Gutted Affirmative Action

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

It seemed like yesterday when news broke that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee. An enormous sense of dread settled in the pit of my stomach that evening as the reality that the King of dreams was dead. It felt like every step, every stride, made by Black people in America since Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops in the courthouse at…

--

--

H. Michael Harvey, JD

Harvey is Living Now Book Awards 2020 Bronze Medalist for his memoir Freaknik Lawyer: A Memoir on the Craft of Resistance. Available at haroldmichaelharvey.com