The creator of the 1619 Project, Pulitzer-winning historian Nikole Hannah-Jones, served as the University of Wisconsin’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium speaker this Tuesday, talking about his legacy and how MLK’s legacy has been diluted into a “safe” version that Americans can stomach. Hannah-Jones began the speech by warning the audience that if they came … Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy was whitewashed to fit conservative agenda, MLK Symposium speaker says