This program provides an intimate portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr., profiling his life as a civil rights leader, and assessing the extent to which his dream of racial equality has been realized today. The program reveals King’s character and retraces his historic campaigns, using rare archival footage and extracts from his momentous speeches, and recollections of friends and key figures in the civil rights movement, including Andrew Young and Ralph Abernathy. The program not only charts the successes of the civil rights movement in securing black rights, but takes a bleak look at its failures: continuing poverty, unemployment, race hatred, and crime in the inner city. What emerges most from the program, though, is that King’s prophesies were uncannily accurate and that his solutions are still profoundly relevant today. (78 minutes)