Malcolm X and the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. are often described as Polar opposites.

Today is time to stop singing and start swinging. You can sing up on freedom, but you can swing up on some bread.

We will meet your physical force with soul force, do to us what you will and we will steal, love you.

Two ends of the struggle for black liberation whose iconic styles were as different as fire and water,

but whose aims of black freedom were undoubtedly two sides of the same coin.

In life, Malcolm and Martin met only one time. It was during congressional hearings over the 1964 Civil Rights Act,

and there's this iconic photo of the two men hand in hand, smiles wide, a moment whose weight is almost too hard to wrap your arms around,

these titans of black identity and civil rights, the sword and the shield.

Filling a moment in time together, with every ounce of hope and frustration and commitment to the cause that both had been consumed by for much of their adult lives.

Both would be tragically cut down in the coming years at the height of the struggle.

Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, Dr. King met the same fate on April 4, 1968.

In life, they were portrayed as rivals, but in death, their legacies are forever linked, and so are their families.

The children of these freedom fighters have themselves become kin, sharing a birthright that few others could ever understand.

Did you already talk to my dear sister, Bernice?

No, we haven't yet.

She's doing a lot of great things.

Ilya Sashabaz, a daughter of Malcolm X, and Dr. Bernice King, a daughter of MLK, share an inheritance, a torch, a mission, and a vision of a more just world.

And the playbook to make it happen.

That's a pleasure to speak with you.

Thank you, pleasure to speak with you too.

I can see you, I'm just trying to see which picture I want to show.

I got one of my dad, and I got one of my mom.

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