Successful attorney Kedar Ismail offered a simple, two-point plan for social engagement and change in a call to action at the January 17 program kicking off Pierce County’s annual program honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (MLK) Jr.
Ismail is the founder and lead attorney of the Law Offices of Kedar K. Ismail in Springfield, MA. He grew up in Elizabeth, NJ, but has family ties to Pierce County. Ismail recalls trips to Blackshear to see his grandmother, Katie Hall, when he was growing up. He recalled her stories of no electricity, no running water, of long hard work in the tobacco and cotton fields and living in the harsh realities of the “Jim Crow” South before desegregation and integration.
“My question to us is, are we doing better or are we doing worse?” Ismail asked the congregation.
