New Urban PodSpot: Weekend Retrospective: On the 50th Anniversary Week of the "I Have A Dream Speech", Revisiting the Vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tonight's NUY 40+ POD SPOT post comes in the form a Saturday evening human interest story looking back on the history of Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech, which marked its 50th Anniversary this week and was covered by news outlets around the globe.

America's National Public Radio (NPR) is acclaimed for its wide-ranging media coverage of arts, humanities, world news and politics, and has a comparable variety of specialized podcasts related to each of those areas of interest. Tonight, we're featuring an episode of their podcast CODE SWITCH, a culture program hosted by journalists of color that provides an outlet to analyze and discuss issues around  pop culture, history, and race with intelligence & nuance, while sometimes "code-switching", which is the art of jumping back and forth "between the linguistic and cultural spaces and different parts of one's cultural identity".

In this CODE SWITCH podcast, hosts Shareen Marisol Maraji and Gene Demby revisit the historical events in the days surrounding Dr. King's most famous speech,  "I Have A Dream" and his subsequent death in a short episode entitled, "The Road to the Promised Land, 50 Years Later". Eyewitness accounts from clergy, friends, and activists of that time recollect the events and deeply human interactions of those last few days of Dr. King's life. Following Dr. King's work from Chicago to Memphis and later, California, it's must-listen for those interested in history, and provides fascinating but clear, first account insight on how the direction of the American Civil Rights movement transformed overnight after Dr. King's death.

To hear the episode on Apple:       The Road to the Promised Land- iTunes
                                on Android:    The Road to the Promised Land- Stitcher

or to listen online on any of your digital devices visit NPR's CODE SWITCH directly via the following link, and press play!:       NPR CODE SWITCH- Home