Thousand gather to mark the date of civil rights leader Martin Luther King’s historic “I have a dream” speech. The demonstration has been dubbed “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks,” in reference to African American George Floyd, who suffocated beneath the knee of a white officer in Minneapolis, igniting the most widespread civil unrest in the country in decades. France 24 Kethevane Gorjestani tells us more.
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