I had the privilege of organizing a reading of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail this month.

It’s an important letter, and one whose words carry just as much weight today as they did in 1963.

Many thanks to everyone involved, all on short notice:

1. Winnie Kao
2. Mike “Ambassador” Bruny
3. Doc Waller
4. Darius Gant
5. Garfield Hylton
6. Jermaine Maree
7. Shaun King
8. Pamela Slim
9. DeRay McKesson
10. Dr. Ivor Horn
11. Charlie Gilkey
12. Neal Ludevig
13. Charles Davis
14. Soledad O’Brien
15. Greg Hartle
16. Kimberly Nadia Scott
17. Lisa Nicole Bell
18. Paul Drayton
19. Codie Elaine
20. André Blackman
21. John Montgomery II
22. Daniel Jarvis
23. James Lopez
24. Donna Queza
25. Marc Aarons
26. Stella Santana
27. Alex Chavez
28. Spencer Pitman
29. Ankit Shah
30. Cliff Worley
31. Keylor Leigh
32. Stephanie Hasham
33. Willie Jackson (my dad!)
34. Don Pottinger
35. Rachel Rodgers
36. Dr. Angelica Perez-Litwin
37. Akilah Hughes
38. Diana Alvear
39. Danielle Jenene Powell
40. Emmanuel Azih

This project is dedicated to my father (whose name I share, and whose voice you hear at 37:24), who was born into segregation 71 years ago and taught me everything I know about how to be a man.