50 Years Ago Today, MLK Spoke Out Against Vietnam
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were allies in the fight for civil rights in America. The Civil Rights Act of 1964...
View ArticleIn Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Days, A Strike in Memphis
Journalist Ted Conover talks about his latest article for Smithsonian magazine called, “I Am a Man.” He looks at one of the last things Martin Luther King Jr. did before he was shot in April 1968. He...
View Article'I Am Not Your Negro,' Why MLK Went to Memphis, The Perils of Reporting on...
Hébert Peck discusses the Oscar-nominated documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, which he produced with his brother, director Raoul Peck. Journalist Ted Conover talks about his latest article for...
View ArticleTeens, Tell Us How You Volunteer!
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is also known as the National Day of Action, a day to reflect on how we serve our communities.So WNYC spoke to teenagers about their experiences with volunteering."To me,...
View ArticleFifty Years After MLK: A Dream Deferred
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, The Brian Lehrer Show remembers his legacy with clips from an Apollo Theater event - moderated by Brian and All Things Considered's Jami Floyd - in which they...
View ArticleFighting for the Dream of Economic Justice
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentIt has been 50 years since the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began his major push for economic justice.Dr. King’s 1968 “Poor People’s...
View ArticleFrom the Bus Boycott to Black Lives Matter
Kevin Shird, once incarcerated for drug dealing, now an activist and writer, and Nelson Malden, civil rights activist and barber in Montgomery, Alabama, discuss their book The Colored Waiting Room:...
View ArticleMartin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy, Fifty Years Later
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King was in Memphis to support the city’s striking sanitation...
View ArticleCornel West Remembers Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Cornel West, professor at Harvard University, author of books including Race Matters and Black Prophetic Fire and contributor to To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin...
View ArticleHow James Brown Kept Boston Calm After MLK Jr.'s Assassination
In the hours and days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., violence broke out in some 130 cities across America. But amidst the chaos and rioting, there was an oasis of relative peace...
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1968: Fifty Years Later
Assassinations. The fight for civil rights. Protests against the Vietnam War. Labor strikes. 1968 was undoubtedly a momentous year in a dramatic era.Like the rest of the nation, the New York City...
View ArticleMonday Morning Politics; The Gender Gap in Finance; MLK Jr. Day Remembrance
Coming up on today's show:New York Magazine's Gabriel Debenedetti talks about the latest in national political news.Blair DuQuesnay, an investment adviser for Ritholtz Wealth Management and author of...
View Article'Andy in the Archives:' Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Andy Lanset, the director of archives at WNYC, joins us for a special Martin Luther King, Jr. Day edition of "Andy in the Archives."
View ArticleA Time to Break Silence
On April 4, 1967, civil rights leader and Nobel laureate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed a gathering of more than three thousand people at New York’s Riverside Church. His talk that day, Beyond...
View Article[Unedited] John Lewis with Krista Tippett
An extraordinary conversation with the late congressman John Lewis, taped in Montgomery, Alabama, during a pilgrimage 50 years after the March on Washington. It offers a rare look inside his wisdom,...
View ArticleRemembering John Lewis
An extraordinary conversation with the late congressman John Lewis, taped in Montgomery, Alabama, during a pilgrimage 50 years after the March on Washington. It offers a rare look inside his wisdom,...
View Article414- The Address Book
An address is something many people take for granted today, but they are in fact a fairly recent invention that has shaped our cities and taken on great political importance. Deirdre Mask is the author...
View Article'MLK/FBI' Explores A History Of Spying
“MLK/FBI” returns us to a time when J. Edgar Hoover led a campaign of surveillance and harassment against Martin Luther King, Jr. The film is being previewed online at the DOC NYC festival where...
View ArticleCinematters: NY Social Justice Film Festival
Isaac Zablocki, director of The Carole Zabar Center for Film at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, joins us to discuss the Cinematters: NY Social Justice Film Festival. The festival promotes social...
View ArticleFrom the Pulpit to Politics: Rev. Warnock's Senate Win and the Future of the...
Last week, Reverend Raphael Warnock made history after winning one of two Senate runoff elections in Georgia. The senior pastor of Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rev. Warnock will become...
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