From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, January 20th.

Here we are, really, on this very unusual and poignant intersection of Martin Luther King Day and inauguration day, unless the King

holiday and what it stands for get lost in the breaking news of inauguration day.

We'll begin with the portion that I hosted yesterday of our annual Martin Luther King weekend

event at the Apollo theater.

This runs about 20 minutes. My guests at the

Apollo were Brooklyn College and CUNY grad center historian, Dr. Gene Theo Harris, and Reverend Dr.

Jackie Lewis of the Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village. And as you'll hear, we presented

this as a live on-stage edition of our Centennial series, A Hundred Years of a

Hundred Things.

So we'll pick it up as I'm telling the audience in the house what that is.

On my radio show, in conjunction with WNYC Centennial, we're doing a series called 100 Years

of 100 Things, and we're framing the conversation that

we're about to have in the context of that. We're up to thing number 60 in that series, which

will call almost 100 years of Martin Luther King and his quest for freedom in New York City

and elsewhere in the north. I'll say that again. Martin Luther King and his quest for freedom in New York City and elsewhere in the north. I'll say that again. Martin Luther King

in his quest for freedom in New York City and elsewhere in the north. And I say almost 100 years

because Dr. King was born on January 15th, 1929, and he would have turned 96 this past Wednesday.

So we'll take the liberty of a little bit of rounding to include this in the series.

With me on the stage, we'll be.

Come on out.

Join Brian on the stage, a Burning House House MLK and the American Experiment.

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