Dr. Bernice A. King

Good Words with Kirk Franklin

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Music, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 946 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Kirk Franklin is joined by activist, minister and daughter of the civil rights movement, Dr. Bernice A. King for a conversation on social justice, navigating religion, and growing up a King. Dr. Bernice A. King talks about what it’s like to see her father Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s name everywhere, processing his death in therapy, her love of music and past as a DJ, the evolution of the civil rights movement from the past to the present, and more. Good Words With Kirk Franklin is produced by RCAI & Somethin Else, and Sony Music Entertainment. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts. To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Text 'Kirk' to 83393 -- or visit Compassion.com/kirkfranklin to sponsor a child through Compassion International Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Listen, Dr. King, I got to tell you something that you're going to find very humorous.
0:06.4	About 20 years ago, my phone rang and it was an unknown number and I'm a little ghetto. So I normally answered my phone with like a yope or like a who-diss and I answered my phone and I answered my phone and I said who this? And I answered my phone and I said who this? And there was a voice, there was this
0:26.7	this soft kind of fragile voice that said, uh, hello? I'm looking for Kirk Franklin.
0:36.1	And I say, yo, who this is?
0:37.4	And I said it again.
0:39.1	Oh my God.
0:39.8	And she says, uh, this is Coretta Scott King.
0:47.6	Who says, who this to Coretta Scott King.
0:55.0	I'm sure she found it humorous.
0:57.0	She laughed, but I almost peed on myself.
1:00.0	Because who says that to Coretta Scott King?
1:03.0	So I'm sorry for what I said to your mama.
1:06.0	Brothers and sisters,
1:12.0	my name is Kirk Franklin and I come to give you good words Good Words. Let's go.
1:28.0	Is this incredible Good Words family today to have the daughter of one of the most well-known cultural figures in the world.
1:34.5	Continuing the charge of her late parents, Dr. Marl Luther King and Coretta Scott King,
1:40.1	I guess lives in the legacy while forging her own path as an activist global thought lead
1:45.2	a minister and CEO of the Martin Luther King Junior Center for non-violent social change and just a great friend.
1:52.0	I love the rasp business of a voice. She's gonna break you off a sermon any minute.
1:58.0	She gonna let you know that you don't want no smoke with Dr. King is because I'm on fire at any time.
2:04.8	Please, welcome to good words, ladies and gentlemen.
2:07.7	Dr. Bernice A King. Get everybody ready.
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