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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Sam Pollard on 'MLK/FBI'

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Larry weighs in on the final days of Trump in office and the art of deception. Later, he is joined by film director Sam Pollard to discuss his latest documentary ‘MLK/FBI,’ the wire tapping of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by the the FBI, and how the tapes could affect King's legacy (22:00). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Sam Pollard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome back to Black on the Air.

0:08.7

My name is Larry Wanmore.

0:10.5

I believe we were off a week.

0:11.8

I can't keep tracks sometimes, but it's nice to be back.

0:16.2

And yes, we were off because I didn't get a chance to talk about the little party that

0:20.7

there's a conservative alt-right people had at the Capitol, which was really nasty and

0:26.2

pretty bad.

0:27.2

So it's good to be back, as we're about to kick somebody out of that white house, which

0:32.2

is kind of nice.

0:33.2

It's very exciting week, you guys.

0:35.6

But once again, a couple of very surreal weeks on the way to the end.

0:39.9

This is Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend birthday.

0:44.7

I guess you could say is birthday is actually, I believe, on the 15th, but we celebrated this

0:48.3

weekend.

0:49.8

And on my podcast today, we have Sam Pollard, who directed this new documentary on Martin

0:55.1

Luther King's called MLK Slash FBI.

0:59.6

And it's really interesting because he really goes into detail about the FBI and their involvement

1:05.9

in surveilling Martin Luther King.

1:07.9

And a lot of details that you just didn't know, you know, it's really, really, really interesting

1:13.9

documentary.

1:14.9

You could get it on Amazon Prime.

1:16.5

I think you can order it.

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