Check out a list of programs airing on January 15 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Radio
9 a.m. | King's Last March
Although it was one of the most challenging and controversial chapters of his career, the final year of King's life has not been the focus of significant public attention. This dramatic and illuminating documentary uses a rich mix of archival tape, oral histories and contemporary interviews to paint a vivid picture of what may have been the most difficult year of Dr. King's life.
10 a.m. | Now You're Talking with Marshall Ramsey
Two Museum’s one unforgettable experience!!! Four years ago ground was broken for two world-class museums, The Museum of MS History and The MS Civil Rights Museum. Today we will speak with Katie Blount, MS Civil Rights Director, Pamela Junior, and Director of the MS History Museum, Rachel Myers about the museums and what to expect for the opening day celebration.
11 a.m. | MLK: Three Landmark Speeches
Three key speeches of American civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Martin Luther King Junior are excerpted and commented on by two leading King scholars.
1 p.m. | King Stories
King Stories is a one hour documentary of captivating stories told by close friends and associates of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Host Julian Bond, along with insiders—Ralph Abernathy, David Garrow, Dick Gregory, Mark Lane and Larry Williams—share rarely documented stories about the personal and private sides of Martin Luther King, Jr.
2 p.m. | On Being with Krista Tippett: Ruby Sales
Where does it hurt? That’s a question the civil rights icon Ruby Sales learned to ask during the days of that movement. It’s a question we scarcely know how to ask in public life now, but it gets at human dynamics that we are living and reckoning with. At a convening of 20 theologians seeking to reimagine the public good of theology for this century, Ruby Sales unsettles some of what we think we know about the force of religion in civil rights history, and names a “spiritual crisis of white America” as a calling of this time.
3 p.m. | Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Melba Pattillo Beals was one of nine African-American kids who in 1957 participated in the hard-fought integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was one of the early battles of the Civil Rights Movement. She has a new Memoir called, I will not fear.
Television
8 p.m. | Independent Lens: "I Am Not Your Negro"
I Am Not Your Negro envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, a radical narration about race in America, using the writer’s original words, as read by actor Samuel L. Jackson. Alongside a flood of rich archival material, the film draws upon Baldwin’s notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in America.
Raoul Peck's Oscar-nominated documentary is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
9:30 p.m. | Fannie Lou Hamer: Stand Up
Civil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer is remembered by those who worked side by side with her in the struggle for voting rights. An African-American sharecropper from the Mississippi Delta, Hamer’s difficulty registering to vote in 1962 led to her career as an outspoken activist, congressional candidate, and fierce fighter for the rights of all.
