Rejoinging us to discuss MLK’s legacy in 2021 is Professor Gerald Horne, author of the forthcoming “The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering and the Political Economy of Boxing.”
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Our compilation of MLK-related audio returns with a new addition this year with excerpts from this newly-released speech via The Root:
“Exclusive: Martin Luther King Jr. Talks Reparations, White Economic Anxiety and Guaranteed Income in Previously Unheard Speech”
Dr. King’s first TV “interview” from the show “The Open Mind – The New Negro” in 1957, hosted by Professor Richard D. Hefner.
Beyond Vietnam, delivered on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York City.
MLK’s last speech “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution“ delivered at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., on 31 March 1968.
Walter Cronkite reports King’s assassination.
Nina Simone “Why?” live, 3 days following MLK’s assassination.