VIDEO DESCRIPTION:

Play, download and edit the free video Legacy of Love (WGBH Promo).

Premiere broadcast on WGBH Channel 2 Thursday 8/6/20 at 9:00pm and Sunday 8/9/20 at 6:30pm.

For the first time on television, Legacy of Love shows how Martin Luther King, Jr and Coretta Scott met in 1952, fell in love, dreamed a new world together, and resolved to dedicate their union to the civil rights movement.

Hosted by Reverend Liz Walker. Produced, written and directed by Roberto Mighty. Funded by King Boston/The Boston Foundation. robertomighty.com/mlkb
----------
SUMMARY
Taking stylistic cues from narrative filmmaking, this documentary reveals the romantic relationship between Coretta Scott and Martin Luther King, Jr. when they met as college students; where they came from, where they went and what they were doing; and their dreams for a life of activism and family. From the beginning, they were committed to making the country a better place. In the end, they made the world a better place. The film shows that history and makes it relevant to today’s audiences - utilizing living witnesses, interactive storytelling, and graphic animation.

ENGAGING STORYTELLING
Legacy of Love uses historical dramatizations with actors, authentic period wardrobe and props; 4K cinematography; rare historic archival footage and images of the Kings in their early years; and interviews with people who knew the Kings in the early 1950’s and have never been interviewed before for a film of this scope.

“Legacy of Love” Exclusive Original Interviews Include:

- Clayborne Carson, Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor of History, Stanford University

- Jewelle Taylor-Gibbs, a Radcliffe College undergraduate who dated MLK in 1951

- Walter Fluker, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership, Boston University

- City of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh

- Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu

- Herman Hemingway, a Brandeis University undergraduate and a frat brother of MLK who dated Coretta Scott in 1951

- Rabbi Elaine Zecher, Temple Israel

- The Late Rev. Michael E. Haynes, Pastor Emeritus, Twelfth Baptist Church

- Imam Yasir Fahmy, Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center

- Raquel Ortiz, Public Television producer of “La Plaza”

###

Download, play and edit free videos and free audios from Legacy of Love (WGBH Promo) using RedcoolMedia.net web apps