Hey I'm Jonathan Kapart and welcome to K-P-Up.

For the past few months, I've been working on something new.

Between sit-downs at a civil rights retreat in California in January,

and the Faith in Politics Institute's Civil Rights pilgrimage to Alabama in March,

I've had the privilege of talking to a variety of civil rights leaders.

A few of them you know, many of them you may not, but they're all significant voices. We need to hear their stories.

More importantly, we need to heed the lessons of their experience because we won't have many

opportunities to hear from them much longer.

If we're going to understand the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s,

and how it affects our lives still, these are the voices to listen to. People like Andrew Young, who was

with Dr King when he was assassinated. And then I remembered he used to say that, you know, some of us are not going to make it to 40.

He said, but if we make it to 40, we can make it to 100.

Well, he didn't make it to 40.

So it becomes me an obligation for me to keep doing whatever I can do as long

as I can do it. And I'll be 87 in another month and I don't know whether I can make a hundred or not but you

can't waste the experience.

and so for two months each week here on Cape up we're going to hear

here on Cape up we're going to hear their voices, listen to their stories, and try to understand how we can move forward from here.

We're calling the series Voices of the Movement and it will start on April 4th.

So make sure you subscribe to Cape Up, or find it on Washington Post.com.

slash Podcasts. You're going to.