A missed message? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. forty years on

Friday, April 04, 2008

Has our vision of Dr. King's message been sanitized by the passing of time? We've all heard, "I have a dream." In a less-well known speech, King said, "There comes a time when a man must take the position that it is neither safe nor politic nor popular — but he must take it because it is right..."

Patrik Henry Bass, author of "Like a Mighty Stream: The March on Washington, August 28, 1963," believes we've settled for an incomplete version of a complex message.

Guest: Patrik Henry Bass, Senior Editor, Essence Magazine and author of "Like a Mighty Stream: The March on Washington, August 28, 1963"

Contributors:

Corey Takahashi

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