After Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says she learned some members of an organization voiced opposition to her making a speech on MLK Day, she used Martin Luther King Jr.’s own words in her speech. - NBCBLK
with Trymaine Lee on the MSNBC podcast"Into America," she said the legacy of slavery is everywhere and it's “constraining our lives.” She also emphasized the importance of the"1619 Project" while concluding her speech on MLK Day.
During the speech, she said she presented polling showing that more than three-quarters of Americans opposed King at the time of his assassination in 1968, whileBy showing these polling numbers, Hannah-Jones said, people who today oppose what King stood for then “do not get to be the arbiters of his legacy.”
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