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From the Bus Boycott to Black Lives Matter
Kevin Shird, once incarcerated for drug dealing turned activist and writer, and Nelson Malden, civil rights activist and barber in Montgomery, Alabama, discuss their book The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movements; Conversations Between an MLK Jr. Confidant and a Modern-Day Activist (Apollo Publishers, 2018).
Shird talks about traveling from Baltimore to Montgomery to speak to Malden about cutting the Reverend's hair, today's civil rights fights, what's improved and what knowledge has been lost.