Yolanda Renee King, MLK's Granddaughter, Wants Congress to Act on Voting Rights
BY YOLANDA RENEE KING
Some kids learn about their grandparents by seeing them in person, sitting around the table at dinners, or simply stopping by to visit. As I've grown, I've learned about my grandparents Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King through hearing about them in school and reading about them in books, because they left a legacy that’s still alive today.
Now I am activating kids my age, across the country, to protect our right to vote — a cause my grandfather took on decades before I was even born. My grandfather knew that we could not have freedom and equality without the right to vote. Yet today that right is under attack, just as it was during his time. It is my generation’s turn to speak up.
So far this year more than 30 bills have been signed into law in 19 states that make it harder for people — particularly Black and brown Americans — to vote. These laws don’t just affect people today. I’m 13 now, but when it is my turn to step up and vote in a few years, my peers and I will face the same challenges. Now is our time to fight for our future.
My grandfather knew that sometimes we all had to get in a little “good trouble,” as the late Representative John Lewis would say, in order to be heard. The challenges my grandparents, Lewis, and so many others faced decades ago are bubbling up again. The torch is being passed: Now is the time to reignite the movement to fight for our right to vote.
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I see a great future for Ms. King 
She gets the urgency of this issue.
