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Jan 2025
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TDS Time Machine | How Not to Celebrate ...

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The Daily Show unpacks the many ways Americans have found to misunderstand and misappropriate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Leslie Jones confronts people on the streets about how they’re celebrating. Dulce Sloan reminds us our heroes aren’t perfect, they’re people. Roy Wood Jr. on the exploitation of the holiday. Vann R. Newkirk II and Trevor Noah discuss the civil rights icon’s real legacy.

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