• “Trudier Harris, currently Professor of English at the University of Alabama, and formerly long time respected J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English at UNC-Chapel Hill, came back home the other day to talk about her new book, “Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature.” In her book she writes that King provides one of the strongest influences upon the creative worlds of multiple generations of African American writers of varying political and social persuasions”