The phrase "to acknowledge the legacy of" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a person, organization, event, or concept that is remembered for influential or memorable achievements or contributions. For example: "We must acknowledge the legacy of civil rights activists who have fought tirelessly for equal rights."
However, one should acknowledge the legacy of Ben Ali's regime, which largely contributed to institutionalize external voting.
Justice for Michael Brown, for Renisha, for Trayvon, for Eric requires that we confront and acknowledge the legacy of racial hatred and violence that infects our communities and has launched the epidemics of criminalization, brutal, abusive policing and mass incarceration.
Because of these health disparities, it is critical that global health -- as a discipline and practice -- acknowledge the legacy of racial injustice and the illegal medical experimentation of Black people, and invest fully in the holistic totality of Black lives and Black health.
We can honor that sacrifice and ensure that "these dead shall not have died in vain" by acknowledging the legacy of emancipation and freedom that they helped to bring about — and, in doing so, continue their work of more fully embracing the founding ideals that we as Americans so dearly treasure.
Britain "It was right that Durban should have acknowledged the legacy of history.
You do have to acknowledge the performance legacy: we're really stuck with Edith Evans' 36-syllable version of "a handbag".
In other ways, his schedule has been calibrated to acknowledge the authoritarian legacy, which still hangs over Burma.
But it would not be able to do so without the strong state institutions bequeathed by the UNM.Ultimately, the failure to acknowledge the positive side of the UNM's legacy is self-defeating.
Among it legacies include the controversial 2007 Northern Territory intervention, funding cuts to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, and a refusal to acknowledge the findings of the Bringing Them Home Report.
Greenwell is fascinating on the legacy of oppression, questioning whether the "triumphant narrative" of gay liberation "has made it difficult to acknowledge the shame that gay people still carry around".
