it's her voice, but mahalia jackson, we wanted to share this with you today because of mlk day. as well -- it was mahalia jackth authe dream, martin. then he went into his i have a dream because she had heard him say that before in a speech. she knew it would wake up the audience. that's his part of this. >> mahalia. congratulations. >> that's wonderful. >> a little sneak peek today. lara. >>> that's great, robin. looking guard to that. -- forward to that. right now though, we are going to talk about the added stress that many of us feel in this new normal working from home, helping kids with remote learning, all of that stuff, and this segment is sponsored by tele-doc. many moms are finding that tele-medicine has made a lot easier caring for your family's health. a mom of three kids, jack, logan and sydney. she and her husband are making the best of pandemic life at home, juggling their children's alternate remote learning schedule and concern about somebody getting sick. >> the virus is always one step closer to your life, especially since numbers have skyrocketed. it's become

. >> mahalia jackson. ♪♪ ♪ i've been strong ♪c1z ♪ i've been abused ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ i've been talked aboutey city to washington. [ applause ] walked 230 miles. a bible in his hand and his feet on the road to freedom. >> may i say this? that i walked because the people of montgomery led by reverend martin luther king, walked to maintain their human dignity and their rights. let us all walk together for freedom, for liberty, and equality! >> he walked like the people of montgomery, alabama. the whole world listening to their footsteps. ♪♪ it all started when mrs. rosa parks wouldn't give up her seat on the bus to a white man. >> as far as i can remember, during my lifetime, i resisted the idea of being mistreated and pushed around because of my race. and i felt that all people should be free regardless of their color. and when the driver demanded that we give up this seat, i felt that the time had come to not take it anymore. i had had enough, and this was truly the end of being pushed around. ♪♪ >> they walked and cried, wouldn't ride in shame, walked on weary feet, walked on weary feet til

. ■■ [music break] amy: mahalia jackson, "take my hand, precious lord," dr. martin luther king, jr.'vorite song. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman, as we return to dr. martin luther king's speech "beyond vietnam." he gave this sech april 4, 1967, a year to the day before he was assassinated. he was speaking at riverside church in new york. >> these are revolutionary tion all over the globe, men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and out of the wombs of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born. the shirtless and barefoot people of the land are rising up as never before. "the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light." we in the west must support these revolutions. it is a sad fact that, because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries. this has driven many to feel that only marxism has

the point is that as he was giving that speech mahalia jackson, the great gospel singer that someoneing admired, and there is a picture of her looking at king telling him, talk about the dream, and that's a great story. that's not true, but that's a great story. [ laughter ] so he had the "i have a dream". >> he did it from memory. many whites who saw him were mesmerized and they hadn't heard him speak that way and many blacks didn't hear him speak that way. after the speech is over, is he invited to the white house? >> well, after the speech is over what happens is that the kennedys are moved by what they've heard and what they've experienced and i think they began to realize that if they're going to grapple with civil rights issue, one of the people they need to deal with is martin luther king. so he becomes sort of a person that the kennedys initially go to and there's this wonderful story of during the elections of 1960, dr. king is rested and there was a notion of who was going to help him. was someone from the nixon administration or from the kennedy and they sent people down t

is if anybody calls for insurrection from the stage, that they will flip the switch and play mahalia jackson singing "he's got the whole world in his hands." that's their response. so it is into that, into that atmosphere that king plans his address. now, king gave around 350 speeches that year. if you take time off from high days and holidays, that's a speech a day. generally he's not giving a bespoke speech. he's an african-american baptist preacher. in that tradition, he drafts his sermon, but then he crafts it in response to how the audience is taking to what he's saying. and he has a number of arsenal -- a kind of -- a series of weapons he can use, rhetorical weapons. but the difference is that this speech, unlike other speeches, is going to be televised. if you're in a black church of a civil rights movement, you would have heard king speak before. if you weren't, this was his oratorical introduction. kennedy hears the speech and says, damn, he's good. king wants something that is on par with gettysburg. we know a lot of these details because the fbi were kind enough to record them for

. ♪ ♪ >> we were raised on mahalia jackson. and what you always heard in mahalia's voice was easy.gospel was god's music and that's where it all began. the black sheep of the family was rock and roll. right? >> in the south, it was connected because i grew up singing in the church choir, which was -- which was fine. it was traditional church songs. but i also grew up a huge elvis presley fan, and elvis was so influenced by gospel. >> gospel music is derived from deep within the heart of human beings. we have been to waycross, georgia, where they have all day singings, by that i mean 24 hours. we've been down to flar flar where they have 24-hour sings. we apologize for cutting this short. ♪ >> there was a wonderful compatibility between the church songs that were prevalent in white churches and church songs that were prevalent in african-american churches. so i think music broke down barriers between people, not only geographically, but between the two races. >> i grew up listening to that because that's part of what dad played. we were liberals and we were not racist. in plains, th