Source: In These Times
by Jeanne Theoharis
“Two years ago, recordings released during actor Jonathan Majors’ domestic violence trial sparked controversy when he was heard scolding his ex-girlfriend to be more like Coretta Scott King. Be careful what you wish for, Mr. Majors, I thought. Coretta Scott King was a fierce, relentless freedom fighter all her life — and these politics were key to why Martin Luther King Jr. fell in love with her. Yet, time and again, Scott King said she was ’made to sound like an attachment to a vacuum cleaner, the wife of Martin, then the widow of Martin. … But I was never just a wife, nor a widow. I was always more than a label.'” (01/18/25)