Jan. 20 is a busy day. It is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and also Inauguration Day. Wall-to-wall coverage of pomp and circumstance will be on the agenda for some, but not a group of Black women in St. Paul. They’ve got other plans.
“I want to honor Dr. King’s legacy,” said Sheletta Brundidge , a well-known community activist, WCCO Radio host and Twin Cities media personality. “He said, ‘Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?’”
Brundidge organized a group of Black women who will not be in front of their televisions on Jan. 20, but instead in St. Paul as part of a Black Women’s Day of Service, delivering pillows and comforters intended to provide warmth and security to local survivors of domestic abuse…