Yolanda Renee King, the granddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., talks to Lester Holt about her grandfather’s legacy, and she shares how other kids can use their voices for change. | NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

When Yolanda King was just 12 years old, she stood trembling before her school auditorium, asked to give a short speech about her father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It wasn’t the history books she was afraid of—it was the memory. Just four years earlier, she had lost him to an assassin’s bullet. Her classmates expected her to talk about the “dream,” but what she really carried was the weight of grief. Her mother, Coretta Scott King, who had already sacrificed her own career as a gifted singer to

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