MEMPHIS, Tenn. — “It’s OK if you cry.”
That was the text message relayed by Andscape’s Marc Spears moments before I took the pilgrimage this week to the National Civil Rights Museum, built on the site of the Lorraine Hotel — the place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.
“You’ll feel something real eerie when you go on that balcony,” — words from a conversation I had recently with one of my best friends since I was 9, my guy Chauncey, a man who isn't the most emotional or sentimental.