MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY: It's now almost thirty-seven years since King was assassinated in Memphis. He was there to support a strike against the city by AFSCME Local 1733, a union of African-American sanitation workers seeking recognition and better pay.

A year earlier, King said this to members of Hospital Workers Local 1199 in New York:

When there is massive unemployment in the black community, it is called a social problem. But when there is massive unemployment in the white community, it is called a Depression.

We look around every day and we see thousands and millions of people making inadequate wages. Not only do they work in our hospitals, they work in our hotels, they work in our laundries, they work in domestic service, they find themselves underemployed. You see, no labor is really menial unless you're not getting adequate wages.

Now there's a text to preach on today in Cleveland... thirty-seven years later.