294 - A Conversation about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech
Be the Bridge Podcast with Latasha Morrison
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šļø 27 August 2024
ā±ļø 55 minutes
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Summary
August 28th marks the anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Latasha Morrison and Jefferson Jones sit down to talk about the historical context of the speech, common misconceptions of it, what sticks out to them, and what we can continue to learn from it. 61 years later we still move onward to that dream!
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Be The Bridge podcast with Latasha Morrison. |
| 0:06.0 | What are you guys doing today? |
| 0:09.0 | Each week, Be The Bridge podcast tackles subjects related to race and culture with the goal of bringing understanding. |
| 0:16.9 | But I'm going to do it in the spirit of love. |
| 0:19.4 | We believe understanding can move us toward racial healing, racial equity, and racial unity. |
| 0:25.0 | Latasha Morrison is the founder of Be the Bridge, |
| 0:27.8 | which is an organization responding to racial brokenness and systemic injustice in our world. |
| 0:34.0 | This podcast is an extension of our vision to make sure people are no longer conditioned by a racialized society but grounded in truth. |
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| 0:45.6 | Without further ado, let's begin today's podcast. |
| 0:48.8 | Oh, and stick around for some important information at the end. |
| 0:53.3 | Hi, be the bridge community. This is Letasha Morrison. And we are just taking a little pause today. |
| 1:00.6 | We think that what we're about to talk about is so important to the work that we do here at Bid the Bridge. |
| 1:07.0 | I think this work is an extension of Dr. King's, I have a dream speech. And so we are coming up on the |
| 1:15.6 | anniversary of that tomorrow, August to 28th, 1963. 1963. Although I am old. I'm not that old. |
| 1:28.2 | No. |
| 1:28.8 | I'm not an elder to that degree yet. |
| 1:33.1 | But, you know, I think about that year in 1963 just to kind of paint a picture of it. |
| 1:41.6 | And I think it's important. |
| 1:43.2 | I have Jefferson here. |
| 1:44.1 | We're going to get into it a little |
| 1:45.6 | bit about this speech and the significance and the frameworks of this speech and what it meant to |
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