In ‘Young King,’ Lerone Martin reveals the making of leader
- May 5
- 1 min read
From St. Louis Magazine
Before Lerone Martin joined Stanford in 2022 as director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, he spent years in St. Louis asking how religion moves through public life: through Black preaching, recorded sound, political institutions, state surveillance, and the moral vocabulary of American power. At Washington University’s John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, he pursued those questions as a scholar of African American religious history. “I’m still asking questions about religion and public life,” Martin says.
