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