On the same weekend the nation celebrated 60 years since Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream" speech, another mass shooting targeting Black Americans took the lives of three people in Florida.

It was one of several mass shootings this past weekend. It's something that has become commonplace in American life.

Civil rights leaders acknowledge how far the country has come, but also how far it still has to go.

Rev. James Lawson joins “Your Morning” to mark the sixth decade since King’s powerful call for equality. Lawson, who is known as one of the lions of the civil rights movement, was a dear friend of King and was with him hours before his death.