The MLK they didn’t teach us about.

Michael Daniels
5 min readJan 18, 2021

Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Let’s discuss the real Dr. King.

Dr. King & Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture).

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there’s more to Dr. King’s legacy than his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech that we were all force-fed every year in elementary school. We’ve been given a ‘Disney princess’ version of the great Reverend, and this is not by accident. MLK comes from a Black radical…

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Michael Daniels

I’m an Anarcho- Communist writer that focuses mostly on Black Liberation. Student of Prison Abolition & Pan-Africanism. Not quite 30 yet.