martin luther king jr. carter was born four and half years before martin luther -- jimmy carter is still with us. martin luther king could still be with us. his older sister is still with us. i just realized this is an incredible opportunity to meet people who knew him and record their stories one last time. >> there were certainly things, like a biography that was inclusive. a lot of things about him. so there is a great deal of information that had not been out there before that you have brought to the front. but i must say that the portrait of king that emerges from your book may be troublesome for some people, but you said that you wanted to recover the real man from the ocricy. remind the audience what you meant? >> one of the things that happened especially since the national holiday was implemented is that we have turned him into this almost idealized figure. and, you know, we teach beginning in kindergarten this vision of king beginning with "i have a dream." and we often do not get more sophisticate

martin luther king. i've got at least eight or nine on my shelf, not counting yours. and not to mention his that he wrote about himself too. so the first question one wants to know is why did you think there was a need for yet another martin luther king book? >> two reasons, mainly. one, it had been a long time since the last king biography. 40 years when the trumpet sound came out. since then, we've had other great books about king. that covers america in the king years. david gareo's book is not a biography. it's wonderful. but 40 years between king biographies is ridiculous. it's too long. in that time, obviously, there's a lot more material. not just fbi material, but archival material that's come into play. and at the same time, there were people alive who knew dr. king and this was really the sweet spot when i could get around and interview him, and it was too late. i was here in atlanta for my ali book, interviewing people like john lewis and andrew young, i just gravitated toward asking them, what

when you speak about martin luther king, i wonder if you would agree with what martin luther king was saying and that a jobs guarantee, a guarantee of clean water and food, education -- these are the things that will bring down crime. that is what martin luther king said. i'm not sure if you are correctly representing what he stood for. cops get away with the crime they committed, is a big issue. you have not yet mentioned accountability for police wrongdoing. you keep saying police need to see people as human -- how do you get a badge and a gun and get to go into somebody else's community if you do not know human beings exist? i think you have completely missed anything martin luther king has tried to teach and you may need to look at it again. host: ok, we will let our guests respond to that. guest: i can tell you very frankly that the people in this country are more well-versed than the philosophy of nonviolent social change dr. king taught. i was fortunate to be mentored i most icons that worked with dr. king, including his wife. what dr. king said is we have to invest in the unde

martin luther king. to introduce our guest, the panel of correspondents here is robert lodge, the moderator of press conference. welcome to the press conference usa. our guest, the reverend dr. martin luther king, became spokesman and leader -- in the southern united states at the unusually early age 27. it was during a bus boycott in montgomery, alabama, which resulted in integrated -- and whites riding by side. later, as head of the southern christian leadership conference, he turned his attention to desegregation of restaurants and other public facilities. and he has played a leading role getting -- registered to vote an important step in achieving equal rights. now, at the age of 34, dr. king, a baptist minister, married and the father of four children, has become a symbol of the struggle to end racial segregation here in the united states. to interview him, we have a panel of distinguished correspondents, an african and asian and a southern newspaperman who wrote the book, the case for south. gentlem

martin luther king. to introduce our guest, the panel of correspondents here is robert lodge, the moderator of press conference. welcome to the press conference usa. our guest, the reverend dr. martin luther king, became spokesman and leader -- in the southern united states at the unusually early age 27. it was during a bus boycott in montgomery, alabama, which resulted in integrated -- and whites riding by side. later, as head of the southern christian leadership conference, he turned his attention to desegregation of restaurants and other public facilities. and he has played a leading role getting -- registered to vote an important step in achieving equal rights. now, at the age of 34, dr. king, a baptist minister, married and the father of four children, has become a symbol of the struggle to end racial segregation here in the united states. to interview him, we have a panel of distinguished correspondents, an african and asian and a southern newspaperman who wrote the book, the case for south. gentlem

martin luther king in april of this year. but those awful events give us ample warning, that in a climate of extremists, of disrespectful wall, of contempt for the rights of others, violence may bring down the very best among us, and a nation that tolerates violence in any form cannot expect to be able to confine it to just minor outbursts. for this reason, i am appointing, with the recommendation of the leadership of the congress, whom i have talked with this evening, a commission of most distinguished americans to immediately examine this tragic phenomenon. >> the next morning, june 6th, robert kennedy died. his death, coming just for a half years after the assassination on his brother and only two months after the murder of dr. martin luther king. cast another dark shadow of grief across america. during his life, he knew far more than his share of personal tragedy. yet, he never abandoned his faith in america. he never lost his confidence and the spiritual strength of ordinary men and women. he believed in the capacity of

martin luther king as a visible symbol of poverty in america. heavy rains and unrealistic demands brought mud and disaffection to what was supposed to have been a city of hope? the energies of its leadership were diverted from crusading against poverty. to restraining militant agitators during its existence the johnson administration kept a close watch over developments in resurrection city. high government officials including cabinet officers held meetings with the demonstrators to listen to their grievances and try to work out solutions to many of their problems. here very means more than 50,000 people gathered between the washington and lincoln monuments for a nine hour peaceful demonstration of solidarity with the nation's poor. it was a capstone event of the poor people's campaign begun two months before to follow the absolute direction than the directives of the march but even as the voices of reasons spoke non-violence and restraint to this gathering seeds of discontent were taking root in the camp itself. tensions and discord continued u

martin luther king jr.ing, with others, joined the efforts of the alabama christian movement for human rights to march in birmingham. together, they sought to bring national attention to the efforts to desegregate public facilities in birmingham. as detailed in his book, paul kix is the first to reveal the method of project c, the marches, demonstrations, and sit-ins that followed, led to arrests of the adults in the movement and the pivotal moment in the movement when sclc recruited children to carry the cause. paul explores what happens and how it influences activism today. ladies and gentlemen, paul kix . [ applause ] >> i want to start by acknowledging a few different things. one of them is that i am a white man. i am married to a black woman. we have three kids who identify as black. i grew up in hubbard, iowa, my wife grew up in houston, texas, and you were wondering why do they care about birmingham, alabama tonight. let me tell you. in the summer of 2020, we all saw the images of the officer suffoca

martin luther king as a visible symbol of poverty in america. heavy rains and unrealistic demands brought mud and disaffection to what was supposed to have been a city of hope? the energies of its leadership were diverted from crusading against poverty. to restraining militant agitators during its existence the johnson administration kept a close watch over developments in resurrection city. high government officials including cabinet officers held meetings with the demonstrators to listen to their grievances and try to work out solutions to many of their problems. here very means more than 50,000 people gathered between the washington and lincoln monuments for a nine hour peaceful demonstration of solidarity with the nation's poor. it was a capstone event of the poor people's campaign begun two months before to follow the absolute direction than the directives of the march but even as the voices of reasons spoke non-violence and restraint to this gathering seeds of discontent were taking root in the camp itself. tensions and discord continued u

vocally supporting the occupy wall street protests, barack obama, when he was dedicating the martin luther king jr. memorial during the occupy protest, he said that if dr. martin luther king jr. were alive today, he would be at occupy wall street, nancy. and other elected officials said they thought occupy wall street was great, but we also know at the same time uh they were coordinating national security crackdown on the protests, there were calls with the mayors of major cities, the department of homeland security and the fbi, not only heavily infiltrated the protests uh, but secured the arrest, there were many people that were arrested, beaten up and injured uh, there were many protesters who spent time in prison, the most famous of which was probably cecilie mcmillan, friend of mine who ended up going to reikers island for almost a year simply because a police officer sexually assaulted her and she jumped in reaction um you know there was a heavy police crackdown lot of people were beaten up lot of people were maced in the face with pepper spray um there was a veteran uh in oakland californ

people in the movement called him the prophet himself and the prophet said one day to martin luther king king, if we can't get the adults, we got to get the kids. and martin luther king junior was like, are you out of your mind? in bull connor's in birmingham? you want to use kids? he's like, yeah i do. he had gone around and james bevel had talked with a lot of kids, a lot of teenagers. they understood what their parents were dealing with. they not only the economic ramification, but they understood as well, just like this would be their life to 100 years. nothing had changed. it's about to be 120. unless we can do something right now to stop it. that's the that's the sort of language they use with james bevel when he held these afternoon pep rallies, he tried bevel tried to tell king they're ready. king and king wanted nothing to do with it. no one in the sclc did. but bit by bit, james bevel. he kept working with these kids. he take them to afterschool training, like at 16th street baptist church, other places here around town. he one time walked him to a cemetery. and i love this lin

on the third sunday in january, which is martin luther king sunday. we will have eric williams, with the smithsonian institute african-american museum . i will be presenting to him the howard thurman road . i have had it all the time. there is only one person that is worn that and it is my co-minister, dr. benton. it has been there and it is a little fragile and i thought it might be an inspiration . i was contacted by them about a photo of dr. thurman and i said, what about his robe. and she said, yes. we will present the robe. and we have the robe of dr. alfred fisk. the cofounder of the church. we will be giving both photos of each one of them and the robe of dr. thurman and the robe of dr. fisk. >> it is wonderful. we have one minute. we cannot go without mentioning the 139 psalms. why did he love that so much? >> it is so intimate. searching me and knowing me. it is the walk, and he talks about the dark and light this. both the light and darkness are a light to me. he is dealing with the, for him. we all have dichotomies. that happens in life . w

martin luther king. on the panel where george and and will the united nations correspondent for the all african news agency, accra, ghana tv pa rostrum. washington correspondent for the indian express newspapers. and william workman, associate editor of, the state and the columbia record in columbia, south carolina. the moderator, robertthank you . i'm yuval levin. i'm a scholar here at the american enterprise institute, and it is my great honor and pleasure to welcome all of you to aei for this special forum to mark the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. the march took place on august 28th of 1963, so we're a little early marking the anniversary and we decide it to be a little early so that we could bring together people who will otherwise be scattered across a variety of events and celebrations this month. and as a result, we really do have an extraordinary lineup of sessions today looking at the march and its legacy and the broader civil rights movement from a variety of angles, thinking abo

thank you so much. >> an earlier caller compared frederick douglass to martin luther king. prof. dford: the thing to remember about frederick douglass is his whole thing was about agitation and protest. he would have been pleased with what martin luther king jr. was doing because he was trying to move forward. it was agitation and protest. king had a different perspective in terms of how you agitate and how you protest but douglass would not have criticized him for that. he would have been pleased the struggle still continues. he says one of his most famous quotes is where there is no struggle there is no progress. and certainly king understood that as well. >> let's return to bradley austin, our urban ranger in baltimore, to learn a little bit more about frederick douglass's life and his eventual escape. >> we are here in fell's point on the corner of lancaster and wolf street. in 1836 one frederick bailey returned to baltimore after his sojourn on the eastern shore, this was the end of fell's point. shipyards were here. he worked in one of those shipyards, the william gardner sh

martin luther king is now racist.he satirical website the babylon bee is challenging a new york law that could criminalise satire as hateful speech . i'm satire as hateful speech. i'm going to be talking to the babylon bee ceo seth dillon, about this threat to artistic expression. and of course , expression. and of course, myself and my fantastic panel will be answering questions from myself and my fantastic panel willstudioswering questions from myself and my fantastic panel willstudio audience uestions from myself and my fantastic panel willstudio audience and ons from myself and my fantastic panel willstudio audience and my from our studio audience and my comedian panellists this evening. are leo kearse and jojo sutherland are . and jojo of sutherland are. and jojo of course, not often in this neck of the woods, but you're on the road at the moment as a comedian, very much working away, working, gigging, travelling . and how has this travelling. and how has this week been for your travelling? travelling. and how ha

martin luther king is now racist.the satirical website the babylon bee is challenging a new york law that could criminalise satire as hateful speech . i'm satire as hateful speech. i'm going to be talking to the babylon bee ceo seth dillon, about this threat to artistic expression. and of course , expression. and of course, myself and my fantastic panel will be answering questions from myself and my fantastic panel willstudioswering questions from myself and my fantastic panel willstudio audience uestions from myself and my fantastic panel willstudio audience and ons from myself and my fantastic panel willstudio audience and my from our studio audience and my comedian panellists this evening. are leo kearse and jojo sutherland are . and jojo of sutherland are. and jojo of course, not often in this neck of the woods, but you're on the road at the moment as a comedian, very much working away, working, gigging, travelling . and how has this travelling. and how has this week been for your travelling? travelling. and how h

martin luther king jr. said, are you out of your mind? you want to use kids? he's like, yeah, i do. he had gone around and had talked with a lot of the kids, a lot of teenagers. they understood what their parents were dealing with, the economic ramifications but they understood that this would be their life, too. 100 years, nothing had changed, it'll be 120 unless we do something to stop it. bevel tried to tell king this, they are ready. king wanted nothing to do with it. no one did. bit by bit, he kept working with these kids. other places around town, he walked in, here, to a cemetery, there were like, 50, 60 kids. he walked and said, look around. in 50 or 60 years, you will all be here. what are you going to do while you are alive. soon, dozens of kids became scores of kids, hundreds of kids, and late april, 1963, thousands of kids. by then, the campaign was anemic. he never actually said, king never actually said, okay. james bevel, instead. we are going to launch double d- day. that happened 60 years a

caller: favor in the nation is martin luther king. we need to turn -- my favorite in the nation is martin luther king. we need to turn back to him. we have forgotten what his teachings were and his nonstop, nonviolent protesting and dissent. we know it is fundamental aspect of democracy and pushing towards progress and safeguarding freedoms and rights. so lots of people are pessimists and many things are happening. the only thing i can say is mass demonstration and protest and as mlk said, the struggle just has to continue. i have faith that we do this and fight against demagoguery. i think we can overcome this difficult time. if they have led shed, i hope it will be the type that took place in the 1960's in the civil rights movement. it did happen but the premise was not bloodshed but sometimes in the nonviolent protests mlk was organizing, there was some bloodshed by white supremacists. if we succeed at some point i don't think it will happen in the next decade or two. i would say let's study the american revolution where we say, we

caller: favor in the nation is martin luther king. we need to turn -- my favorite in the nation is martin luther king. we need to turn back to him. we have forgotten what his teachings were and his nonstop, nonviolent protesting and dissent. we know it is fundamental aspect of democracy and pushing towards progress and safeguarding freedoms and rights. so lots of people are pessimists and many things are happening. the only thing i can say is mass demonstration and protest and as mlk said, the struggle just has to continue. i have faith that we do this and fight against demagoguery. i think we can overcome this difficult time. if they have led shed, i hope it will be the type that took place in the 1960's in the civil rights movement. it did happen but the premise was not bloodshed but sometimes in the nonviolent protests mlk was organizing, there was some bloodshed by white supremacists. if we succeed at some point i don't think it will happen in the next decade or two. i would say let's study the american revolution where we say, we

martin luther king, the night before he died, recalled that without mentioning the story, but to this the people, i've been to the mountaintop. i've seen the promised land. i know what it looks like. and i may not get there with you, but you're going to get there. but you have to get there yourselves. the people have to decide to take back the power in this country. and i'm no moses or martin luther king, but i am part of a movement where we are determined as the american people to go back and reach that promised land again, and i do know what it looks like, because i've seen, i've had glimpses of it during my lifetime. i know it's an america with a prosperous middle class, where if you work hard, if you play by the rules, you can finance a home, you can raise a family, you can take a summer vacation. you can put something aside for your retirement. i know that it's a place where we don't have to choose between economic prosperity and environmental protection. i know it's a place where our children will have the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment and prosperity and good hea

little um inspirational quotes, which may or may not be true, there's one supposed to be from martin luther kingl of. but you're probably not even going to know but it's not going to affect your life, but it'll affect mine, and um, is it going to make me any happier? no, will it bring any one back? no, is it going to make the future any better for? people with their children now are unborn? no. there are currently two million people living in the ghaza strip, of which 52% are children, 70 plus per also refugees, all packed into area more densely populated than tokyo. from technical point of view, it is impossible to survive under this supply, simply you don't have any water resources, there is no available water up hills and into razza, by fragmenting not only the palestinians politically, but also geographically by fragmenting the fragmented. we now continue. to the journey, turning our attention to the issues of refugees, resources and what trump's assault on the palestinians has meant for the people of the gaza strip. lal the by my darling lol by my son, sleep in peace, sleep in silence, i've

little um inspirational quotes which may or may not be true, there's one supposed to be from martin luther kingi could hit michelle all i want, you're probably not ev, but it's not going to effect your life, but it will affect mine, and um, is it going to make me any happier? no, will it bring anyone back? no, is it going to make the future any better for people with their children that are unborn? no. your headlines for this hour, the un calls for unimpeded humanitarian access to the gaza srift warning the bloccaded territory is witnessing an unprecedented human catastrophe. iran's president strongly condemns israel for forcing the people of gaza from their homes, saying the regime's actions or reminiscent of the nazi's behavior, and pro palestinian values continue around the world as the israely regime continues its brutal aggression against the besieged gazas room.

that meeting with a message of hope from american baptist minister and political activist, martin luther king. then you is on your phone and the lion and the lamb shall lie down together. and every man she'll sit under his own vine and fig tree. and none, and she'll be a friend of those hill. we try to be mindful and respectful towards others and to accept our difference. also, they believe faith should foster peace. a message they hope will resonate the young people there and friends and also on the part of the united states, jewish and putting an american communities on edge experts. a warning of a rise in anti semitism and slumber for the demonstration on both sides of the conflict have broken out across the country, especially on college campuses. dw is e s bull has spoken to jo version financing and americans in the capital, washington, dc. note on drafting has never been this worried walking around campus at georgetown university. the past couple of weeks, you seem protests which launched into hateful tyrants. it's extremely unsettling to see the calls for one state with no jews. and it

that meeting with a message of hope from american baptist minister and political activist, martin luther king. then you is on your phone and the lion and the lamb shall lie down together. and every man she'll sit under his own vine and fig tree, and none she'll be a friend at all. so we try to be mindful and respectful towards others and accept our difference. also. they believe face should false to piece a message, they hope will resonate the young people there and friends and also on the part of the united states, jewish and putting an american communities on edge experts. a warning of a rise in anti semitism and islam of it would be a demonstration of both sides of the conflict have broken off across the country, especially on college campuses. dw is e s bull has spoken to joe version financing, and americans in the capital. washington dc. note on dragon has never been this worried walking around campus at georgetown university. the past couple of weeks, you seem protests which launched into hateful tyrants. it's extremely unsettling to see the calls for one state with no jews. and it does