the standard way in which american culture thinks about malcolm x and martin luther king. the real militant is malcolm x, right? the guy who is also a martyr, by the way. but by any means necessary. exactly. so that makes him seem the tough guy. whereas king, you know, it's sord of odd because physically they're different, too. malcolm x, describe him physically? tall, masculine, thin, too, right? really thin where as martin luther king, he's short and chubby, right? he's got very full cheeks, he appears to have soft skin. you know, he's shorter than most of the people around him. that was sort of a surprise, wasn't it? you think of him as a giant. but he was kind of short. he was shorter than i am. and i'm short. and they're so different that he looks like the soft guy and malcolm x looks like the hard, tough guy. and malcolm x had been a criminal. he spent time in prison. he's got that sort of romance about him that, you know, he walked on the dark side. and then come to a different way of seeing the world. yeah, kareem? >> he accused king of being an uncle tom and his fo

and what did some of that -- some of that tension ended up focusing on martin luther king himself, right? what was the problem with people and king? what was going on there? >> he was in kind of a sophomore slump after montgomery. >> it had been going on for some time, right? here he has the success in montgomery in what year? starts in '55. when does it end? oh. it ends in late 1956. and you know that. you know it. and you just got frozen by tv cameras being in the same room. but it wasn't just -- if it's a sophomore slump, it would have been '57. but nothing much happened in '57. and then '58 which could have been a junior slump and '59, a senior slump and still not much was going on with martin luther king and the sclc. he missed the boat on the sit-ins at first. and what happened at the freedom ride in '61? he didn't go, right? and the young people wanted him to go. and he refused. and some people thought that he was a little full of himself, right? and a little too afraid for his own personal safety. and some of that stuff came about also in albany in 1962 where king would fly in an

contradicting itself. >> the standard way in which american culture thinks of malcolm x and martin luther king. he's a martyr, by the way. by any means necessary. exactly. so that makes him seem the tough guy. where as king, it's odd because physically, they are different, too, right? malcolm x, describe him physically. >> tall, masculine. >> tall, masculine, thin, too, right? really thin. martin luther king, he's short and chubby. he's got full cheeks. appears to have soft skin. he's shorter than most of the people around him. that was a surprise, right? you think of him as a giant.in . he's shorter than i am and i'm short. they are so different that he looks like the soft guy and malcolm x looks like the hard, tough guy. malcolm x had been a criminal. he had been a thief. he spent time in prison. he's got that romance about him that he walked on the dark side. then come to different way of seeing the world. yeah? >> accused king of being an uncle tom and his followers and he constantly preached black militants. >> exactly. he had the mantle of being the real militant and they were the uncle

martin luther king transformed david vann. he was a pretty good guy to start, but martin luther king transformed him. i have never seen a city deal as well with the complicated history or any place. here's the 16th street baptist church. you see the sign up there, top right. this is in the middle of the demonstrations. this is during the children's march. when the children's march started because all of the kids gathered in the church and then came down the stairs to the park across the street. kelly ingram park. here's the church again today. so you see the white church, this is a different part of town. this is the southside baptist church. this is the white church. big enough? it's like a city block, right? here's another one. you can't quite see the whole thing, but you see that dome? this is the sanctuary. this thing with the enormous dome on it. so here's kelly ingram park which didn't have any signs back in 1963. it's been completely relandscaped. so this is on one corner right across from the church. and those words are

he pushed martin luther king. everybody had to push king. he thought deeply, but he had to be pushed. he was appalled at the idea of children marching. he said you have to be kidding me. we can't do that. we cant do that. bevel wore him down and the cameras were starting to leave. is that manipulative on the part of the civil rights movement to do something the cameras would like? what do you think about that? are they just publicity hounds? >> they weren't getting the exposure to help the cause. they needed people to be interested. >> why? why do you think they needed that? >> they needed people to realize what's happening in the south and the impact of segregation. >> they needed people where to realize that? >> all over the country. >> all over the country, especially in the north where it was really easy to ignore. yeah. >> all over the world because of how the other countries were getting liberated. >> all the countries in africa and asia that were becoming independent. >> they were looking at the u.s. to see what was going on. >> so, t

howard thurman was a mentor, spiritual advisor and friend to martin luther king, jr. benjamin mays was the president of morehouse college and during that time martin will you ter king, jr. was one of mr. may's students. they formed a close life-long relationship. up next, a discussion on the relationship between thurman, mays and king. morehouse college hosted this hour-and-a-half long discussion. >>> i'm willis sheftal, pro vost at morehouse college. it's migrate pleasure to be greetings on behalf of our president, robert michael franklin. his schedule has him traveling to day, but if you know robert, you know that the public intellectual that he is would prefer to be here for this discussion. i want to thank our distingui distinguished panelists for their participation in what promises to be a spirited discussion of interfaith pioneers pioneers martin luther king, jr., been gentleman main mays icons and giants. also want to thank you, the members of the audience, for braving the threatening weather to hear and interact with the panelists. finally, let me extend a spe

when i asked thurman what influence he had on martin luther king, jr., i think he if a -- facetiously said i had less influence on martin luther king, jr., than any other professor at boston university. we both laughed because this is a time when everyone is claiming they had a major influence on the thinking of martin luther king, jr., because he took a class from them or something. thurman and king would spend sunday afternoons watching baseball together. it's this intimate, personal dimension thurman will often speak of. but in talking with persons who were close to king at the time, they said martin luther king, jr., was eager to get to chapel to listen to thurman as he preached on sunday mornings. so there is this sort of intaking that's going on also with king as well as when you read much of king. you can hear so many of thurman's themes being residence nant in king's writing. and here king is starting to list people from the 20th century. he lists howard thurman. it says something about the significance of thurman but this conversation we are having is bringing forth the impor

point, brittany, because the speech you heard was the evening of april 4th, the night that martin luther king was assassinated in memphis, tennessee. bobby kennedy was at a rally in indianapolis. he announced to the gathering who had not heard yet that martin luther king was assassinated and died. that's why we wanted to show you that. there were other people that sfoek that evening as well, and certainly the president, lyndon johnson, attended the funeral services for martin luther king in atlanta, georgia. those remarks were the evening he was assassinated. let's go to one more moment and we'll go to george mason from the convention speech. this is the acceptance speech by senator humphrey in chicago late in the summer, in august 1968. >> as it has been said in the worst of times a great people must do the best of things and let us do it. we stand at such a moment now in the affairs of this nation because my fellow americans something new, something different has happened. there is an end of an era and there is the beginning of a new day. it is the special genius of the democratic party tha

martin luther king jr. howard thurman served as dean of theology and benjamin mace was president of morehouse college. this is 90 minutes. >> good afternoon. >> i'm willis sheftall, professor and provost at morehouse college. it's my great pleasure to bring meetings on behalf of our president, robert michael franklin. his schedule has him traveling today, but if you know robert, intellectual that he is would prefer to be here for this discussion. i want to thank our distinguished panelists for their participation in what propgss to be a spirited discussion of interfaith pioneers martin luther king jr., benjamin mace and howard thurman, all icons as well as giants in thehous i also want to thank you, members of the audience, for braving the threatening weather to hear and interact with our panelists. and finally let me extend a special thanks to dean larry carter, roy craft, terry walker and their support staffs for putting together another outstanding testament to the college's commitment to advancing inter

this is my sixth year at martin luther king academic middle school. i teach english and history. i am here to address some concerns of our martin luther king community. as you may have inferred, we seem to be at a point of crisis. we did hand out a packet, but i do have another set of standards. perhaps i can read one to you. leaders should promote equity, fairness, and respect among all members of the community of zero and -- of the community. every member has received unsatisfactory performance or below standard. this is an attack on the union. we are down to 1 minutes. i will move quickly to my second point. for new teachers who have done an excellent job at our school, they have seen non-reelected without cause, and this is very upsetting. if you look at the track record, we have a very high in teacher turnover. the goal should be to keep and support good teachers, not dismiss them because they do not agree or because they speak up or advocate for the school, paris, and -- parents, or students. >> good evening. i am a volunteer parent. everybody is so depressed for some reason

that is that martin luther king was shot and was killed tonight in memphis, tennessee. martin luther king dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. he died in the cause of that effort. on this difficult day and in this difficult time for the united states, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are, what direction we want to move in. for those of you who are black, considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible, you can be filled with bitterness and with hatred and a desire for revenge. we can move in that direction as a country in greater polarization, black people amongst blacks, the white amongst whites filled with hatred toward one another. or we can make an efforts as martin luther king did to understand and to comprehend and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land with an effort to understand compassion and love. >> the evening of april 4th, 1968. let me go to isaiah and libby from the washington center. just a quick comment and your reaction to w

they don't know exactly why the driver was going so fast down martin luther king jr. high. they do know the vehicle was not being chased by authorities. in landover, jay korff, abc 7 news. >> thank you so much. investigators try to find out what caused a fire at a high rise apartment complex in southeast around 8:30 last night's at mulberry plaza on good hope road. coleman was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and a child taken to the hospital with minor smoke inhalation >> . it was the scariest thing i've ever seen. >> i heard everybody screaming and running. the hallway was packed with smoke crack. the fire started in the basement and spread to the second-floor. it took an hour for firefighters to put out the flames. another fire under investigation, this one in silver spring. the blaze broke out around 5:30 yesterday evening on its fall or avenue in an apartment. a firefighter and a resident or taken to hospital. injuries are not life- threatening. department did not have a working smoke alarm. >> opening statements begin today in the trial of five d.

witnesses recount what happened when a luxury car slammed into a kfc last night a at martin luther king had wit -- martin luther king highway and sheriff road. we're learning more about the driver involved. jummy olabanji is live with that story. >> cynne, witnesses were out here last night telling us that the driver seem to be going 100 miles per hour before slamming into this at kfc behind us. if we also learned that last month the same driver was cited for going more than 90 miles per hour on the beltway. you can see behind me that the cleanups here still continue. there is much damage that needs to be repaired. if people who live and work around here tell us they cannot believe what happened. much of what we are hearing from folks out here today is that they are really surprised that anyone was speeding that much here on this stretch of martin luther king highway. the speed limit is posted at about 45 miles per hour. at a gas station, she tells us she was out here last night and could not believe all of the damage that was out here. a lot of folks say they come to the kfc all the ti

martin luther king it's not going to be a complete closure but the capacity is going to change from one hundred forty some beds to actually forty two beds so france will be able well pretty quickly so we're going to keep on two of the outlines of those. but it does mean is when the hospital to challenge you build don't fall they're going to challenge it because they're going to be overwhelmed at times the professional don't engage don't get angry when i hear judges do anything like that at least here to do work on the ship . around and you know questions i. the community had a nickname for ok and everybody knows it's called killer king we would get on scene in first thing people would ask is where might that be transported and if we said martin luther king you know often response was please don't take medicaid. they're understaffed underfunded and they had too many patients that didn't have private physicians and with four or five hundred patients in an emergency room it's very difficult to treat us those into the hospital through medical center is in critical condition and the cantor w

and this weekends, as we marked martin luther king day, martin luther king jr. day, imagine this beautiful monument. this beautiful monument on the national mall where lincoln and jefferson and roosevelt, all those in washington, martin luther king jr., pretty thrilling that he is there as a giant of america. and remember the speech that he made. the "i had a dream" speech. but many of us loved the part when he talked about the fierce urgency of now. it's become very popular to talk about that. but it's very urgent right now. to be sensitive to it. but follow those words about the fierce urgency of now is what i love. this powerful statement. he said, this is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. the same could be true of the same challenges we face today. arianna talked to you about the internet and increase communication. we have expanded opportunity through science and technology and through awareness that technology provides for us to make a very big difference for our children for their future, for ou

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this is the spirit of martin luther king jr. and gao and it is a noble reason that should compel us to continue to fight for their cause. and mr. chairman, i was very much moved this morning by the actions of my friend, michael horowitz, on behalf of the china six-prisoner faith and all other chinese prisoners of conscience. i think mr. horowitz is here today. i was especially moved by his effort to cause the obama administration to deal with the human rights issues with the primetime attention that such leaders as president reagan and the late tom landis give it. michael was arrested in front of the white house this morning. for engaging in a quiet and respectful demonstration. as i saw the police place handcuffs on him and drive him away in a squad car, i realized how great america's heart can be. i also realized the great things that america's friends of freedom can do for oppressed people in china andelsewhere. before his arrest, michael prepared a statement which i hope can be entered into the hearing record. as you know, m

it's martin luther king you know even if they just limit their number of beds which they're planning on doing to forty two beds then that's going to be repercussions for everybody so. hopefully it won't get to the point where it's going to be affecting patient care to the point where people are going to be waiting for such long times that they're not going to be getting treated as they should so we'll see what happens. if you actually injected dr check out the vehicle and the passenger. there is no one in to this we are the county hospital for the poor and yet we're the trauma center for everyone on the south bay area of los angeles. so it makes no difference if you have the best insurance in the world or no insurance the next time you're in a traffic accident if god forbid we have an earthquake or a bioterrorist attack we are the place that you want to come we're the place you're going to be brought regardless of where you want to come and if we're overcrowded and have no gurneys you're going to be in trouble you're not going to get the kind of care that you deserve. it's not the tr

martin luther king said you can tell the quality of a person and i paraphrase the quality of of a leader of where they stand in times of adversity and struggle. our next speaker stood behind us

but you have to -- as martin luther king said, we will not find it in the courtroom. you have to get on the streets and have people demand believers and the latter's so that folks can bring themselves up and out of poverty. >tavis: "the l.a. times" referenced view as of a fall in the work of clarence darrow -- you as following in the work of clarence darrow. individuals making choices to become lawyers for different reasons. then they become lawyers and decide to become different kinds of lawyers for different reasons. i say that to us how it is and why it is you chose to be the kind of lawyer that you are fighting for these kinds of clients, dispossessed people. >> i am a lawyer third. i am a solutions lady. i want democracy to work for those who have leased. if you keep your eye on that mission as opposed to winning a case, you will get a different result. we had all the results. we were win, win, win. we beat the lapd. be sued the share. we get people off of death row. we could win the cases. but then you look at the conditions that the children of our clients were

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rededicate ourselves to make sure that we followed thought and martin luther king's dream on that road to equality. -- we follow dr. martin luther king's dream on that road to equality. >> a strange day in college basketball. >> we saw many different upsets. erps struggle. then, this with the wolf pack. >> we are kicking the jackpot to $15 million. there are nine ways to play. be sure you check the tickets early parent of the first number is 23-52-28-59-56. the power ball number >> hope for a late-season push into the n.c.a.a. tournament pretty much needed to start today for maryland. they saw that opportunity against the struggling but talented team in virginia. they had it going early you put a hand in his face, that does not matter. they took the lead, 26-24. bass, a freshman out of baltimore. tied at 31. maryland in the game. the second half, and an unmitigated disaster. a little jumper to go. there he goes again. he had 25 in the game. 71-44 is your final. a bad day for the terps. a referee stopped the game, went to the scorer's table, had a pair of the fans ejected. they happen t

. >> we are hearing from some of the people who missed this around 12 hours ago, along martin luther king high and sherif rd. jummy olabanji is there with the latest. >> good morning. the witnesses worked at a car wash that's located just on the other side of this kfc. it is closed, all boarded up. witnesses say it was a horrifying scene as the bmw careen down m.l.k. boulevard and slammed into kfc. >> it knocked down the air pumps and everything. it took up the bushes and went all the way over to kfc and turned into a big ball of metal. >> it happened 6:40 monday night. >> when he did occur, he went airborne and slipped and slid and tires and axles and everything. he slid straight into kfc and crashed all the windows out. >> unimaginable damage. >> it was terrible. i never seen nothing like that before. unfortunate result. >> somebody trapped under the car. >> the driver of a bmw lost control of while speeding down martin luther king jr. highway in landover. authorities say the vehicle plowed into a car parked at the restaurant. in had to be doing about 100 miles an hour. >> we know at le

. >> it happens in landover on martin luther king highway. witnesses had to say about this terrific crash. >> it knocked down air pumpsi and everythingairt took up the bushes and went all way over to the restaurant and turned into a ball of metal. >> it started 6:30 monday night? . >> when he did occur, he went immediately airborne, flip over and slid and tires and axles and everything. the crashed all the windows out of the restaurant. >> the damage, unimaginable. >> i had never seen anything like that before. >> unfortunate results. >> someone trapped under the car. >> the driver of a bmw lost control while speeding down if martin luther king jr. highway in landover. authorities say the vehicle plowed into a car parked at the restaurant. >> it had to be doing 100 miles an hour. >> two adults taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. a third person, possibly the driver or passenger in the bmw was ejected and killed. witnesses tell us the victims seemed to be young. >> i cannot even explain it. >> investigators also trying to fi