'Genius: MLK/X' offers a fresh look at two iconic civil rights leaders
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- Lee Enterprises ([email protected])
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- Thu 08 Feb 2024
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- https://play.cdnstream1.com/s/leeenterprises/streamed-screened-movie-d28b8b/genius-mlk-x-offers-a-fr-8918ac
1960s civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X took different approaches in efforts to achieve the same goals. The latest installment of the National Geographic series "Genius" looks at figures in a new way.
"Genius: MLK/X" premieres two episodes each of the first four Thursdays of February for Black History Month on National Geographic. Episodes then become available the next day on Hulu and Disney+.
Bruce Miller talks with Aaron Pierre, who portrays Malcolm X, and Kelvin Harrison Jr., who plays Martin Luther King Jr., as well as producers Gina Prince-Blythewood and Reggie Rock Blythewood.
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Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin.
