Journalist’s controversial Union League Club appearance pushes words of a more ‘radical’ MLK back to the forefront

Hannah-Jones recounted the event in a series of tweets following her Monday speech in the club’s Lincoln Room. “I scrapped my original speech and spent the entire first half of it reading excerpts from a bunch of Dr. King’s speeches, but without telling anyone that I was doing so, leading the audience to think King’s words were mine,” she wrote on Jan. 17. “And, whew, chile, it was AMAZING.”