Genius: MLK/X
‘I couldn’t believe it’ – Kelvin Harrison Jr, who played MLK, stunned by the civil rights icon’s original name
Actor Kelvin Harrison Jr has disclosed that he was shocked when he learned civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael. The civil rights activist’s name was changed when he was five years old. “I couldn’t believe his name was Michael. Was anybody else shocked by that? I mean, that was pretty cool,”…