MSNBC Alex Witt Reports February 20, 2022 18:53:00
Taken ill. she was 95 years old and was in the hospital. that was the forcing event for me to go and sit with her and hear her story. the story she told was how our great, great grandfather, you know, after emancipation, helped found a school and found a church, but then a generation later, my grandmother's generation, that congregation itself had fallen on hard, financial times. it had its own forcing event. it didn't have the resources to continue to sustain itself. and so one evening they gathered to decide its uncertain future. in the middle of that meeting, those meeting got word dr. king...