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Holy Week

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  • Part 8: Resurrection

    March 14, 2023 · 48 min

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  • Part 7: Covenant

    March 14, 2023 · 39 min

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  • Part 6: Kingdom

    March 14, 2023 · 39 min

    On Palm Sunday, Black D.C. wakes up to a broken dream Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Part 5: Prophecy

    March 14, 2023 · 39 min

    Leaders hope to stop that which had been foretold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Part 4: Overcome

    March 14, 2023 · 50 min

    In Memphis, the Movement faces a reckoning Additional reading: The 4ooth: From Slavery to Hip Hop by John Burl Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  • Part 3: Black Messiah

    March 14, 2023 · 30 min

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  • Part 2: Inferno

    March 14, 2023 · 30 min

    The Black capital of the world catches fire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Part 1: Rupture

    March 14, 2023 · 21 min

    A day at the crossroads of chance and destiny Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  • Introducing Holy Week

    February 28, 2023 · 3 min

    Holy Week: The story of a revolution undone. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusion to a powerful era of civil rights in America, but how did this hero’s murder come to be the…

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About the show

The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusion to a powerful era of civil rights in America, but how did this hero’s murder come to be the stitching used to tie together a narrative of victory? The week that followed his killing was one of the most fiery, disruptive, and revolutionary, and is nearly forgotten. Over the course of eight episodes, Holy Week brings forward the stories of the activists who turned heartbreak into action, families scorched by chaos, and politicians who worked to contain the grief. Seven days diverted the course of a social revolution and set the stage for modern clashes over voting rights, redlining, critical race theory, and the role of racial unrest in today’s post–George Floyd reckoning.