MLK, The Organizer and the Radical Thinker: Fresh Air: NPR

NEW columnist and sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom and researcher Eddie Glaude Jr. reflects on the struggle for civil rights and what it means to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the same day that President Donald Trump is sworn in. “Perhaps the juxtaposition of seeing Donald Trump preside over the official state memorial service for Martin Luther King will remind us of our responsibility to remember King as he actually was … when he was a philosopher, an organizer of the people,” Cottom says.