Summary: Martin Luther King Jr.'s journey to a philosophy of nonviolence and his lasting legacy as a peace proponent is recalled in interviews with his daughter, the late Yolanda King, and one of King's top colleagues in the civil rights movement, the late Dr. Dorothy Cotton. This program is also available in a 29:00 version at PRX.
The first half of this show--the interview with Doroty Cotton, Dr. King's assistant at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference--is really wonderful.
The second half is less so--King's daughter Yolanda has become a 'motivational speaker,' and she speaks with all the shallowness one would expect from a practitioner in that field. Also, the focus on nonviolence gets lost--and a deep, in-depth disucssion of nonviolence is deeply necessary at the moment--especially some way of trying to comparae how King dealth with Vietnam and how we are dealing with Iraq at the moment. . But what works best in this show, of course, is the chance to listen to Dr. King, in several long excerpts from his speeches. I believe there may be a half-hour version of this featuring jsut Dorothy Cotton's interview, and I think that would be a fine piece to play at almost any time, not just Dr. King's birthday
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Bill McKibben
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Review of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Path To Nonviolence (59:00 Version)
The first half of this show--the interview with Doroty Cotton, Dr. King's assistant at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference--is really wonderful.
The second half is less so--King's daughter Yolanda has become a 'motivational speaker,' and she speaks with all the shallowness one would expect from a practitioner in that field. Also, the focus on nonviolence gets lost--and a deep, in-depth disucssion of nonviolence is deeply necessary at the moment--especially some way of trying to comparae how King dealth with Vietnam and how we are dealing with Iraq at the moment. . But what works best in this show, of course, is the chance to listen to Dr. King, in several long excerpts from his speeches. I believe there may be a half-hour version of this featuring jsut Dorothy Cotton's interview, and I think that would be a fine piece to play at almost any time, not just Dr. King's birthday