This week on the show, national politics reporter Stephen Wentzell sits down with Leta McCollough Seletzky, author of The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

About Leta McCollough Seletzky

Leta McCollough Seletzky grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and now lives in Walnut Creek, California. A litigator-turned-essayist and memoirist, her work appears in The Atlantic; the New York Times; the Grio; O, The Oprah Magazine; the Washington Post, and elsewhere. Her essay “The Man in the Picture,” published in O, The Oprah Magazine, was selected as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2019. She holds a BA from Northwestern University and a JD from the George Washington University Law School.

The Kneeling Man tells the life story of Seletzky’s father and his witnessing of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Learn more about The Kneeling Man here.

Photo of Leta McCollough Seletzky by Gretchen Adams.

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