CANDLELIT CHRONICLES: HISTORIC HAUNTS

Today We Remember

If Martin Luther King Jr. had not been cut down in the prime of his life in 1968 by an assassin's bullet, today he would be 81 years old. Please let us all observe a moment of silence, and remember and honour the work that Rev. King did for society, for people of colour, and for human rights.





Today some of us also commemmorate the death of Rosa Luxemburg, executed by fascists on January 15, 1919, in Berlin, for her part in inciting a workers' rebellion about which she had no prior information nor did she act to incite it.





I will be adding more on Rosa today, as I do additional pertinent research. I am in the process of researching for a straight-historical novel on her life, but I highly recommend Jonathan Rabb's novel, ROSA.