“So many people have tried to get access to MLK’s speeches.
Many aren’t lucky,” TV writer-producer Kirk A. Moore (For Life) wrote on Twitter.
(Notably,Ava DuVernaywas unable to obtain the rights to King’s speeches for her 2014 biopicSelma.)
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“Maybe music is different, but I don’t like it.
And, for him to use the speech in THIS way… just NO.
Having spent much of the past year researching Dr. King, this just feels trashy and inappropriate.”
Moore was not the only one to express such sentiments:
A representative for Bieber had no comment.
