“What makes Martin Luther King different from Jesus?” I thought it was a joke at first. It was the morning of June 17, 2015, and I was eating breakfast with Dick Gregory, the legendary activist and comedian, in a Washington, D.C., hotel restaurant. Gregory didn’t wait for me to answer his question. “What makes King different from Jesus? Jesus is hearsay. Don’t mean it didn’t happen, but there’s film of King. Can’t nobody change nothing. Who would ever believe? When King was shot, he was the most hated man on the planet … Now he’s the most beloved!” Who would ever believe?
