‘I Have A Dream’ at 50: Discussing the legacy of MLK’s speech at a Germantown black-poetry festival
In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. (AP Photo, file)
Fifty years ago today, civil-rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr. took to the steps before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. and delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech.
Last weekend, NewsWorks asked attendees and performers at the People’s Poetry Festival — an event hosted by the Black Writers Museum in Germantown — to discuss the legacy and importance of a speech that some deemed among history’s most notable orations.
They also discussed work yet to be done from a civil-rights perspective and what King’s words mean to their day-to-day lives.
See what they had to see in the video below.
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