MLK’s life has been filtered through a revisionist lens, but his radical legacy is a balm in today’s political climate.
![Dr Martin Luther King, Jr stands with fellow demonstrators as they are arrested for parading without a permit in Selma, Alabama in 1965 [Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/GettyImages-517474808.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Jenn M Jackson (they/them) is a queer androgynous Black woman, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people and an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University in the Department of Political Science.
MLK’s life has been filtered through a revisionist lens, but his radical legacy is a balm in today’s political climate.
![Dr Martin Luther King, Jr stands with fellow demonstrators as they are arrested for parading without a permit in Selma, Alabama in 1965 [Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/GettyImages-517474808.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)