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Dr Martin Luther King's Granddaughter Yolanda Renee King Releases We Dream A World

Dr Martin Luther King's Granddaughter Yolanda Renee King Releases We Dream A World

WE DREAM A WORLD: Carrying the Light from My Grandparents, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King by Yolanda Renee King, with illustrations by award-winning artist Nicole Tadgell serves as a grandchild’s gift to her grandparents – and the...

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WE DREAM A WORLD: Carrying the Light from My Grandparents, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King by Yolanda Renee King, with illustrations by award-winning artist Nicole Tadgell serves as a grandchild’s gift to her grandparents – and the world. Inspired by her family’s legacy of national civil rights advocacy, Yolanda Renee King is leading a new generation of modern activists. Though the 15-year-old never met her grandfather, she has galvanized countless young people to stand up and speak out on a range of issues affecting the world today – racial equality, gun violence, climate change, poverty, education, and more. Her new book, a call for unity and equality, is inspired by Langston Hughes’s seminal poem I Dream A World. The book’s narrative expresses Yolanda’s deep love for her grandparents, while also speaking to children everywhere about her hopes for a new future, as expressed through her call-and-response affirmation that brings thunderous participation at her public speeches and addresses: Spread the word! Have you heard? All across the nation, we are going to be a great generation!”