In January 2020, Rev. Dr. Bernice King — MLK’s daughter and CEO of The King Center — asked Irshad to speak at the official observance of Dr. King’s birthday. Irshad’s theme: How MLK inspired and shaped her activism as a Muslim reformer.

P54GFC Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Lyndon B. Johnson meeting at the White House on March 18, 1966. (USA)