NORTWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — In late January, Northwestern University hosted DREAM Week, celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The week of events culminated on Monday, January 24, with a keynote address from Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter behind the New York Times’ “1619 Project.” Hannah-Jones led an hour-long discussion, co-moderated by Robin Walker Sterling, Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and Director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic, and Dr. Linda Suleiman, assistant professor at Feinberg School of Medicine, about the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and how that legacy is often sanitized, or white-washed, specifically in the post-Reagan era. “During his entire lifetime of activism, there was never a time that the majority of white Americans were supporting what he was doing,” Hannah-Jones said. “He was not looking for a colorblind society, he wanted a society that was going to take into account 300 years of anti-blackness and do something to address [it].” Hannah-Jones discussed how Dr. King was one of the many inspirations for her own work, most notably The 1619 Project, which acknowledged the 400^thanniversary of the beginning of American slavery, examined slavery’s modern legacy, and highlighted the contributions of Black Americans in the nation. “We have a world that is being shaped everyday by the legacy of slavery, by the legacy of anti-blackness, but we don’t know many of the ways that these legacies are shaping the world that we’re in,” Hannah-Jones said.