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TONYA MOSLEY, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. And in a rare convergence of history and politics, today is both Martin Luther King Jr.

Day and Inauguration Day. It's only the second time this has happened since MLK Day became a federal holiday. This juxtaposition of honoring a civil rights icon while swearing in a controversial president creates a stark symbolic contrast - a collision of narratives that raises profound questions about the state of Dr.

King's dream in modern America.

Joining me to talk about King's legacy and what it means to have this day shared with Donald Trump is sociologist and New York Times opinion columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom. She's a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of "Thick: And Other Essays." Also joining me is Princeton African American studies professor and religion scholar Eddie Glaude Jr., who has authored several boo