How MLK's 13-year-old granddaughter thinks you should spend the holiday
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“Throughout my life, my parents have told me that ‘your family has done some really phenomenal work.’ And ‘you are the granddaughter of really phenomenal people who changed this country and the world,’” she said, “I didn’t really understand the significance of it until I got older.” Her grandfather’s birthday officially became a federal holiday in 1986 — the third Monday in January honors King, who would have been 93 years old this year. But I am also lucky enough to have parents who have told me 'you don’t have to be like your grandfather, you don’t have to be like your grandmother,'” Yolanda said.
As said here by Maya Eaglin