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welcome to the cotkey ride home for mond, January 18th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

Several of the women who influenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and left their own marks on the civil rights movement.

A new documentary tracking the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent black

activists using documentation recently released by the National Archives. And a rundown of the many

ways this week's U.S. presidential inauguration will differ from years past. Here are some of the

cool things from the news today.

Today is Martin Luther King Day, as well as the National Day of Service, a day on rather than a day off

to try to embody the values of service and community that Dr. King espoused. He should have turned

92 on Friday. And often on this day I see

the meme going around about how Anne Frank was born just three days before him. They both should

be turning 92 this month, and it's wild to think about that they were contemporaries. But Dr. King

had a lot of other contemporaries he actually interfaced with, especially women in his life who supported him, challenged him, inspired him, and picked up the work left to be done after he was assassinated.

NBC News profiled a few of those women today, and I want to share some of the highlights. First off is his wife, Coretta Scott King. And their daughter, Bernice A. King,

tweeted today, as you honor my father today, please honor my mother as well. She was the architect

of the King legacy and founder of the King's center, which she founded less than three months after

daddy died. Without Coretis Scott King, there would be no MLK Day." End quote.

NBC adds that she gave up the dream of becoming a singer to join the fight for racial justice

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