Arts & Entertainment

Plenty of Martin Luther King Day Specials on TV

Want to know more about one of America's most influential figures? Check out these shows.

Don't have the time to head out to any of the area's Martin Luther King Day celebrations or want to know more about one of the most influential people in American history? Patch has assembled a list of TV shows airing today dedicating to King. Check it out:

9 a.m. - The Biography Channel will run "King," a 1978 TV mini-series that tells the story of King's days as a Baptist minister until his 1968 assassination.

2-4 p.m. - The History Channel and host Tom Brokaw take viewers through the life and times of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in "King" (different from the Biography Channel airing).

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4 p.m. - "The Oprah Show" (ABC) will air a new special on race, "Race in America: A 25-Year Look Back," in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

9 p.m. - Centric TV runs HBO Films' "Boycott" (2001), a docudrama about MLK Jr., Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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10 p.m. - PBS shows "Roads to Memphis." Based on the book by Hampton Sides and part of PBS's America Experience series, this documentary tells the stories of Martin Luther King Jr. and his assassin James Earl Ray leading to that fateful day on April 4, 1968. 


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