In honor of the civil rights leader’s 129th birthday, several members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation as a renewed call for universal equality.

In the book, filmmaker and co-author Deborah Riley Draper talks about the 1936 Berlin Olympics, its history-making Black athletes and more.

Longtime resident Burlinda Radney: “How do you create a race-neutral policy in a predominantly Black neighborhood that has historically been adversely affected by race?”

“Our ancestors are crying out to us from their graves.”

Says lead author Eduardo Tarazona-Santos: “During the last 500 years, in the Americas, people of different African origins and from different populations have admixed more in the Americas than in Africa.”

After finding 200-year-old graves—including one simply labeled “A Black Man”—Great Smoky Mountains National Park seeks historical documents to name ancestors buried there.