Host Sharon McMahon of Here’s Where It Gets Interesting talks with Jonathan Eig, the author of the new Martin Luther King Jr. biography, King: A Life. He shares countless moments and pieces of King’s story that get left out of the general image we have of the I Have a Dream preacher. He also argues that, through honoring the Civil Rights activist with a holiday and through flashy quotes and merch like mugs and tees, we lose sight of the real King and his radicalism.
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