2415 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025

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🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Summary

Happy Martin Luther King Day! MR's compilation of MLK-related audio returns!

Excerpts include:

-A previously unheard speech from MLK on reparations, white economic anxiety and guaranteed income

-Dr. King’s first TV “interview” from the show “The Open Mind – The New Negro” in 1957, hosted by Professor Richard D. Hefner.

-"Beyond Vietnam", the speech delivered on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York City.

-MLK’s last speech, “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution“, delivered at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., on 31 March 1968.

-Walter Cronkite reporting King’s assassination in 1968.

-Nina Simone performing the song “Why?” live, 3 days following MLK’s assassination at the Westbury Music Fair on Long Island in April 1968.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It is Monday, January 20th, 20th,
0:12.2	2020.
0:14.0	My name is Sam Cedar.
0:15.1	This is the five-time award-winning majority report.
0:19.0	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged
0:22.8	Gowanus Canal in the heartland
0:24.6	of America, downtown Brooklyn,
0:27.0	USA. Ladies and gentlemen,
0:30.8	it is
0:31.5	a special show today.
0:34.8	Isn't that right, Emma?
0:35.8	It is Martin Luther King Day.
0:38.0	That's correct. Yes, it is. And nothing else is happening today.
0:42.5	Nothing interesting.
0:44.6	Nothing depressing, certainly not.
0:46.9	We have a tradition of playing a compilation of Martin Luther King speeches, interviews, moments in the wake of his assassination that we've been doing here for maybe over a decade.
1:06.2	We've mixed it up a little bit. One of the excerpts was one that was only released, I believe, in like 2020 or 2019.
1:17.7	2021, I can't remember now.
1:19.7	But we should at the very least acknowledge that as we are speaking now, well, not as we're speaking now, but as people are hearing us now,
1:31.7	Donald Trump, very timidly, nervous, like almost nervously, is having his inauguration inside,
1:42.7	ostensibly because it's cold out.
1:46.3	But I think it's probably either his advisors or he himself is afraid of having a tiny, tiny
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