Sitting in his Atlanta home office with his wife and fellow civil rights activist Arndrea Waters King, Martin Luther King III can’t help but reflect on a deep irony: Martin Luther King Jr. Day coincides with the second presidential inauguration of Donald Trump on Jan.

When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday commemorating King’s legacy.

I am a woman obsessed with hope. Not the hope of Hallmark movies, or rainbows, or even the hope that got my former boss, President Obama elected. The hope I am obsessed with is rooted in grief, loss, uncertainty, and the pain of racism. My hope is a violent and powerful thing rooted in the story of my family.