Apr 4th, 2008 · Taylor Branch spent nearly 24 years researching and writing a three-volume biography of Martin Luther King Jr. He joins Fresh Air to disccuss the struggles and triumphs of the last three years of King's life.
Apr 4th, 2008 · Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis in 1968 rallying for fair treatment and pay of African-American sanitation workers when he was assassinated. American history professor Michael Honey joins Fresh Air to discuss his book on the labor campaign King was leading at the time of his death.
Jan 21st, 2008 · For more than 30 years, Camilo Jose Vergara has photographed murals of Martin Luther King Jr. found in inner-city neighborhoods around America. The paintings are sometimes faded or obscured, but all convey the reverence with which the artists treated their subject.
Nov 6th, 2007 · Luther G. Williams is an obscure but remarkable stride pianist from New Orleans. He's also a Bible scholar, a professor and a Hurricane Katrina survivor. Ever since the storm crippled his hometown, his musical fortunes have been looking up.
Jun 23rd, 2007 · A play about Martin Luther King Jr., featuring a Chinese actor in the lead role, makes its Beijing debut. Despite the play's civil rights theme, it has so prompted no official censorship or interference.
Mar 21st, 2007 · R&B singer Luther Ingram has died. Ingram was best known for the early '70s hit "If Lovin' You Is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right."
Jan 15th, 2007 · Michele Norris talks with Michael Rose, executive director of the Atlanta History Center and co-curator of the exhibit "I Have a Dream: The Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection," which opened today. The exhibit features 600 of the 10,000 artifacts purchased at auction from Sotheby's last year by a consortium of Atlanta interests, and includes index cards King used to collect quotes or jot down thoughts, a mimeographed copy of instructions that were handed out to participants in the Montgomery bus boycott, and the only existing copy of "Letter from Birmingham Jail" with his handwriting.
Aug 7th, 2006 · Atlanta area donors didn't want to see the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers go up for auction, so they raised enough money to bring the collection to the city's library for historically black colleges and universities. Many say King's papers will be at home in the city of his youth.