Martin Luther King Jr. Day Compilation 2026
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Sam Seder
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 161 minutes
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Summary
Happy Martin Luther King Day! MR's compilation of MLK-related audio returns!
Excerpts include:
-A previously unheard speech from MLK on reparations, white economic anxiety and guaranteed income
-Dr. King's first TV "interview" from the show "The Open Mind – The New Negro" in 1957, hosted by Professor Richard D. Hefner.
-"Beyond Vietnam", the speech delivered on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York City. -MLK's last speech, "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution", delivered at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., on 31 March 1968.
-Walter Cronkite reporting King's assassination in 1968. -Nina Simone performing the song "Why?" live, 3 days following MLK's assassination at the Westbury Music Fair on Long Island in April 1968.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. |
| 0:06.5 | The destiny of America is always safer in the hands of the people than in the conference rooms of any elite. |
| 0:13.3 | Sam Cedar. |
| 0:14.5 | They are unanimous in their hate for me, and I welcome their hatred. |
| 0:20.5 | We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought |
| 0:25.1 | by the military industrial complex. |
| 0:27.4 | The majority report with Sam Cedar. |
| 0:31.6 | Ah, ha ha. |
| 0:33.0 | Have I got the feeling you've been cheated? |
| 0:40.7 | It is being cheated. It is Monday, January 19th, 2026. |
| 0:46.6 | My name is Sam Cedar. |
| 0:47.7 | This is the five-time award-winning majority report. |
| 0:50.9 | We are broadcasting live to tape. |
| 1:01.7 | Steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. |
| 1:23.3 | On the program today, it is our special, traditional, I mean, in some very narrow circles, famous, Martin Luther King Day compilation that we put out more or less every year. |
| 1:25.1 | Sometimes it changes over the years. |
| 1:26.2 | It's changed a little bit. |
| 1:39.5 | But we do this because, you know, people should take the time to both listen to things that Martin Luther King had to say. |
| 1:47.7 | Our compilation also tries to give a sense of like sort of the context in which he operated, |
| 1:49.4 | you know, to the extent that we can. |
| 1:58.6 | And sort of some of the feeling of the emotion that was involved when he passed. |
| 2:03.8 | And frankly, we also do this because particularly in an era like this, |
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