The Learning Curve: 2025 Encore: Stanford’s Lerone Martin on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week on The Learning Curve we’re looking back on memorable episodes of 2025: In this special MLK Day episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts Alisha Searcy and U-Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng interview Prof. Lerone Martin, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor at Stanford University and Director of the MLK Research and Education Institute. Dr. Martin offers deep insights into the life and legacy of […]

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0:00.0	Well, didn't it rain, children?
0:08.9	Oh, yes.
0:10.8	Didn't it?
0:11.5	Yes.
0:12.3	Didn't it?
0:13.0	You know it didn't?
0:13.8	Didn't it?
0:15.0	Oh, yes.
0:17.1	How it rained.
0:19.3	I said it rained, children. Well, hello again, everybody. This is Albert Chang coming at you with another episode of the Learning Curve podcast. And posting this episode with me is Alicia Thomas Searcy. Hey, Alicia. what's up? Hey, Albert. How are you doing?
0:40.0	Doing all right. And this is our Martin Luther King Day episode. It's a big day in the country,
0:46.6	isn't it? That's right. That's right. And being the MLK episode, we've got a fascinating guest,
0:52.4	Lorone Martin, who's going to be talking to us about the life of Dr. King.
0:57.6	But before we get to that part of our show, let's chat news like we always do.
1:02.2	So what's going on and what does that be your corner of the world?
1:05.9	What did you notice?
1:07.1	Well, I don't know if you've been following this stuff that's going on with the Chicago Board of Education.
1:13.7	Oh, yeah.
1:14.8	Oh, my goodness.
1:15.7	What a saga they are in.
1:17.5	The new mayor of Chicago, as people probably know, is a teacher union member.
1:22.0	He was one of the leaders who became mayor, beat the incumbent, big deal.
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