MLK's Dream and “Selma”

Americans marked Martin Luther King Day with civil disobedience and marches, many under banners reading "Black Lives Matter."

The scenes of mass protest were reminiscent of another time - the historic voting rights march from Memphis to Selma, Alabama, was a half century ago.

This weekend, "Selma" could be relived in movie theaters.

Rev. Jeffrey Brown, the founder of Boston's TenPoint Coalition and a pastor at Union Baptist Church, joined Jim Braude to explain how he thinks Dr. King would respond to the protests taking place today, including the one that took place .

"I think he would react to it in the same way he did in 1966 and '67, when the riots occurred around the death of Malcolm X," said Brown. "He would say that riots are the voices of the unheard, and what people need to pay attention to is the spirit in which these protests are being done."

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