RadioScope Raw : Kool Moe Dee - Knowledge is King, 1989This month on The Lee Bailey Podcast, we journey back in time to spotlight an artist who played a pivotal role in shaping the Hip Hop culture of the 1980s and left an indelible mark ...

“King: From Atlanta to the Mountaintop,” the docudrama special presentation that chronicles the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.

Chapter 1 – The Death of the Dreamer.On April 7, 1968 The dreamer Martin Luther King Jr. was tragically killed, and across the US civil unrest erupts with 711 fires set, resulting in the deaths of dozens of people. A visibly shak...

Chapter 2 – 1954, The Barriers Begin to fall.In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court made a landmark decision by abolishing racial segregation in public schools throughout the country. At the same time, in Montgomery, Alabama, a tired Bl...

Chapter 3 – The Birth of the Dreamer, loss of A Beloved Grandmother and Start of a Journey.He was born as Michael Luther King Jr. in 1929, the same year as the Great Stock Market crash, in Atlanta.  The name on his birth cer...

Chapter 4 – The 1960s, JFK & The World.For many, the 1960s were a time of magic and transformation, but for those facing racial injustice, it was a nightmarish era. Let's take a closer look at the segregated South and the Fre...

Chapter 5 – Birmingham.Birmingham, Alabama was a tough, Segregated steel town, it was so segregated, that it shut down its parks and abandoned its baseball team rather than comply with a federal court order to integrate. Between ...

Chapter 6 – King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" became a cornerstone of protest literature, widely circulated in publications like the Catholic Review Progressive. The lett...

Chapter 7 – Crossing The Mountain.Freedom remained a mere whisper on America's mountaintops. Meanwhile, in Birmingham, the fight for equality was confronted with violence. Bombings continued, targeting the homes and offices of ac...

Chapter 8 – The Summer of 63 and the birth of a dream.The March on Washington, A dream shared in iconic speech that changed a nation and the loss of Camelot, As Sam Cooke would say A Change was gonna come.

Chapter 9 – The Civil Rights Bill & Man of the Year.The Civil rights bill becomes enacted, and with Martin Luther King Jr.'s rising influence, Time Magazine honors him as Man of the Year. Meanwhile, 1964 witnesses the explosi...

Chapter 10 – From Selma to Montgomery and the World.The attack on protesters in Selma sparked the March on Montgomery, leading President Lyndon B. Johnson to declare, "We shall overcome."

Chapter 11 – War & The March to the End.King began to see the Vietnam War as the foremost adversary of the poor and America's people of color. Meanwhile, the Chicago Housing Summit Agreement was reached, and Muhammad Ali was ...

Chapter 12 – Closing Commentary. A look at the freedoms we all gained by a man who gave his life for them. Credits