Reverend Vernon Howard, Jr.: “It is the epitome of White privilege and systemic and structural racism.”

The city will decide today if they want to go back to being one of the nation’s largest without a street or major building honoring the civil rights leader.

The federal agency’s foundation plans to renovate the house, which is currently part of Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park.

Read the act, which put in place protections against discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex or national origin.”