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Hey, history lovers.

I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past.

Rediscovered. Now is the, a show about the past, we discovered.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.

Today is Martin Luther King Day. Now is the time when we take the day off, well many of us, to celebrate the birthday of the slain civil rights activist.

Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice.

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is an icon for the ages.

Even the name itself, Martin and Luther and King, has an almost holy reverence, and that is not a coincidence.

The name on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth certificate was not Martin, nor did the document

include the middle name Luther. Michael King. That's how he entered the world.

The story of how Michael became Martin is a fascinating one. It begins with King's father, a rural

sharecropper who remade himself into a prominent minister in Atlanta.

In 1934, he was senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church,

where he was known as the Reverend Michael King, or ML King.

That summer, the Elder King's Church sent him on a whirlwind trip, including a stop in Germany, which had a profound effect on him.

During his trip, the senior king toured the country where, in 1517, Martin Luther, the German monk and theologian, nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg

Castle Church, challenging the Catholic Church.

The act would help start the Protestant Reformation, the revolution that split Western Christianity.

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