"king in the wilderness," including pulitzer prize winning historian taylor branch, filmmaker peter kunhardt, and writer trey ellis. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from park city, utah. longtime usa gymnastics team doctor larry nassar has been sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for sexually assaulting and abusing more than 100 young female athletes, including olympic gold medalists, under the guise of providing medical treatment. this is michigan judge rosemarie aquilina. i need everyone to be quiet. i told you i am not nice. amy more than 160 women : testified at dr. nassar's sentencing hearing. the chairman of usa gymnastics and several board members resigned amid the high-profile trial. now the president of michigan state university lou anna simon has also resigned. dr. nassar worked at michigan state university from 1997 until 2016, and the university has faced widespread accusations of failing to investigate the accusations of abuse. this is gymnast kaylee lorincz, testifying o

i began by asking peter kunhardt about why he named the film king -- "king in the wilderness." >> we came up with the title in the editing of the film. it was based on the fact that we were overcome by the fact that king was struggling in every possible way during those last three years, trying to f find hs way as he branched away or in addition to his work on racism to work on poverty, to work on moving -- moving to the northern cities and to oppose the war in vietnam. his support that he had enjoyed all during the early part of the civil rights movement vanished. he was left with no roadmap. he felt his friends abandon him. and he was alone and struggling and trying to find his way. we just felt the title captured that kind of loneliness that he experienced. amy go trey ellis, you didid a t ofof the interviews with the legendary figures, the contemporaries of dr. martin luther king. talk about the people that you spoke to and this particular period in his life -- of course, dr. king is a legend, an icon, and people cannot imagine that there was this period whwhere he did d feel so