Examining the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Why MLK Day Can Feel Performative

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay discuss Bow Wow’s performance at a packed club as part of a new segment: Bow Wow Watch (7:00) and Charles Barkley’s ridiculous statement that professional athletes should get to jump the vaccine line because of their high taxes (21:00) before they dive into the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the flaws in the widespread perception of him (37:00). Finally, they say goodbye to President Trump in the last ‘Higher Learning’ podcast of his administration (1:06:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, thought warriors, what is up?
0:02.7	How you learning is on is I've been late.
0:05.5	It's me Rachel Lindsay.
0:07.2	Rachel, how was your weekend?
0:09.0	Weekend, same old, same old man, you know, not a whole lot popping.
0:14.2	Worked on Saturdays, football, Saturday and Sunday.
0:17.6	Football wasn't great on Saturday though, right?
0:19.6	Like, boring age, highly disappointed.
0:21.6	What's Saturday?
0:22.6	Oh, it's Bill's Ravens.
0:24.0	Bill's Ravens, disappointed in that.
0:26.5	Packers and Rams, Womps.
0:28.9	Packers and Rams, Womps.
0:30.7	Yeah.
0:31.7	Sunday, much better games, went to a friend's house, watched the game.
0:35.6	It's always great when I can take copper out where he can have a yard.
0:39.1	You know what I mean?
0:40.1	Play with another dog.
0:41.1	So that was, that was nice.
0:42.7	That was a change of pace for me.
0:44.4	But other than that, you know, bless, let me, let me just say this.
0:49.3	I feel like I'm too podcasting a row.
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