MLK’s life has been filtered through a revisionist lens, but his radical legacy is a balm in today’s political climate.
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Jenn M Jackson (they/them) is a queer androgynous Black woman, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people and an Assistant Professor at Syracuse Uni... versity in the Department of Political Science. They are the author of the forthcoming book from Penguin Random House BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US (2022).
MLK’s life has been filtered through a revisionist lens, but his radical legacy is a balm in today’s political climate.