Among the leaders today who have drawn inspiration from the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is Rudy Metayer, an attorney and city councilman in Pflugerville, Texas, who spoke to Ron Starner for this July 2022 Investment Profile. “When I was four years old, my parents would read books to me. I saw pictures of Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall,” the son of Haitian immigrants told us. “Today, 38 years later, I am doing that work … When you see people like yourself in positions of leadership and service in your community — whether it’s a council member, police officer or firefighter — it makes a real difference. Those things matter. They become baked into the fabric of the community. That is powerful.”
In a full circle moment (considering the civil rights legislation work accomplished with Dr. King by the institution’s namesake), Metayer is shown here speaking at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas.
Photo courtesy of City of Pflugerville and Rudy Metayer
RCLCO Real Estate Consulting this month released the 30th edition of its annual report on the top 50 master-planned communities in the United States, ranked by sales the previous calendar year. Once again, The Villages (pictured) in Florida was No. 1.
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This photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. by Jack Lewis Hiller was made in November 1960, “shortly after King’s release from Georgia’s notorious Reidsville Penitentiary, where he was imprisoned after participating in a sit-in protest in Atlanta,” says the Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery. “Hiller, a freelance photographer, captured this image at the all-black Virginia Teachers Association meeting in Richmond, Virginia. At that time, teachers’ associations in Virginia were segregated. Hiller, who was white (and a high school history teacher in Fairfax County) had traveled to Richmond to attend the white teachers’ association meeting. Eager to hear King speak, he crossed over to the black teachers’ gathering, where he took this picture during a Q&A session following King’s address.”
