“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Special guest/co-host “Baba” Dr. Mtangulizi Sanyika, retired scholar-activist and university professor was an activist-organizer with the civil Rights, Peace, Ecology, and Black Power movements. He has taught at 12 different universities on Africana studies Community Development and Public Policy. He knew and or worked with many movement leaders including Dr. King, John Lewis, Shirley Chisolm, Howard Zinn, Stokely Carmicheal aka Kwame Toure and many others. Here he offers an analysis of the Civil Rights Movement and the issues impacting the US during the 60’s.
Rev. Bernice Albertin E. King, 2nd: daughter and 4th child of Dr. MLK offers a provocative re-interpretation of her father’s life as that of a prophet warning America of its impending calamity if it does not address the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism. She challenges the audience to move beyond the convenient King of quotes and actions that are not connected to the beloved community mindset that transforms unjust hearts and minds. For it is transformation of the spirit that will lead to a change of the unjust structures of poverty and racism. She further reminds us that the Prophet King sought a world without poverty and racism where all were persons and not things, where all were inescapable linked together in the world house.
Rev. Dr. Bernice King sermon, “THE INCONVENIENT KING” a speech delivered by Rev. Dr. Bernice King, CEO of the King Center. She delivered the Call to Commemoration in honor of Dr. King’s 94th birthday celebration at the 2023 Beloved Community Commemorative Service held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta GA, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. Learn more about the King Center commemorations and programs @ http://thekingcenter.org
On August 31, 1967, Dr. King delivered the keynote address at the National Conference on New Politics in Chicago to an audience of mostly progressives. In his speech, he made the case that racism, excessive materialism and militarism are all forms of violence that exist in a vicious cycle, referring to them as the “three evils” of American society. Our guest co-host Dr. Mtangulizi Sanyika was present during that historical moment.
Dr. King’s speech, “The Triple Evils”
According to Broadview.org, “When King preached at Washington National Cathedral on March 31, 1968, no one knew it would be the last Sunday sermon he would ever give. His words delivered that Sunday morning are as alive and relevant today as they were a half-century ago. And they have helped shape this cathedral’s work on social justice and racial reconciliation ever since. When the cathedral asked King to preach, its letter of invitation said the goal was for him to explain “to the white clergy and the people of Greater Washington” that his planned Poor People’s Campaign was intended to be “non-violent” and not “disruptive of life in Washington. ”The Rev. John Walker (who later became dean of this cathedral and the first black Episcopal bishop of Washington) invited King as “the apostle of non-violence.” Dr. Mtangulizi Sanyika tells us more about the significance of Dr. King’s “The Last Sunday Sermon” which was delivered the last Sunday prior to Dr. King’s transition.
Production Credits
Akua Holt / Fahima Seck, Producers and Esther Iverem, Editor
Special thanks “Baba” Dr. Mtangulizi Sanyika, Steve Zeltzer and Esther Iverem
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