Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday song is routinely referred to as the black Happy Birthday song. It’s so much more than that. The song was written by Stevie Wonder as part of a campaign to raise awareness to his and other’s ongoing efforts to try to make Dr. King’s birthday a national holiday. Even after his assassination, King was seen as a troublemaker and lawmakers didn’t think he deserved to be honored. This song was released in 1980, 13 years after King’s death. Congress had failed to pass or