This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.

Okay, we're live. Welcome. Welcome through the 46th episode of In Class with Dr. Gray Carr. He's Dr. Gray Carr.

Today we're going to talk about Martin Luther King. Yesterday was his actual birthday. Monday we celebrate his holiday but before we

get into that I watched one night in Miami last night and I thought it would be a nice entry point because I don't know what you have planned

because I never do. I'm along for this ride like everyone else, but I think it's important for us to reflect on Martin Luther King's legacy

through the lens of how it frees us moving forward.

And that should be the framework.

So as I'm watching this brilliant piece of art directed by the great Regina King starring four

incredible actors playing Jim Brown, Malcolm X, Sam Cook, and Mohammed Ali. I'm watching a brotherhood, you know, a conversation that came about because of Mohammed Ali at that time Cassius Clay beating Sunday

Liston for the heavyweight championship of the world who's 22 years old and all of

these men are friends, friends before fame, friends after and I'm watching freedom suss out in so many different ways

through conversations with Jim Brown and Malcolm X.

Sam Cook and Malcolm X had a clash.

Mohammed Ali and Sam Cook had a conversation.

And in each conversation, Dr. Carr, I'm listening to men in their 20s and 30s

talk about freedom through different lenses. This is the era of verses where everything is this one against that one,

Book of T versus W. E. B.

Martin versus Malcolm.

And what I'm learning is that the more we learn,

the more our perspective on what freedom should look like

should change, but also as people sitting in this seat,

you and I, our job, our role, we had a conversation recently about reading and you said the

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