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Sep 17, 2026
Tavis SmileyHOST
But I happened to have the last conversation on record with Ozzie Davis, and such a rich and powerful conversation that Ruby Dee invited me to speak at Ozzie Davis's funeral.
Tavis SmileyHOST
at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, Upper West Side.
Tavis SmileyHOST
And one of the questions that I asked Mr. Davis in that dialogue, Ben, was how he went about approaching the writing of his iconic eulogy from Malcolm X.
Tavis SmileyHOST
When a moment is that big and that monumental, the kind of gravitas – on a moment like that.
Julian ZelizerGUEST
Most people were not with him.
Julian ZelizerGUEST
And King had been hesitant to speak about it, A, because many civil rights leaders supported the war, and many civil rights leaders didn't understand why should any prominent person like King get movement involved in this war which was going to be controversial and they were scared of angry Lyndon Johnson King worried Johnson who had been good on civil rights would be angry if he comes out but but gradually King is becoming frustrated he gives a few low-level speeches that don't get a lot of attention where he starts to hint at his opposition but finally in April of 1967 He decides to come out against the war and he accepts an invitation from Heschel's group, CalCAP, to speak at the Riverside Church in New York.
Julian ZelizerGUEST
And King gives a very, very strongly worded speech about the corruption of this war and how problematic it is, not just as a policy, but he says for the soul of the country.
Julian ZelizerGUEST
And Heschel is sitting right next to him.
Tavis SmileyHOST
But I happened to have the last conversation on record with Ozzie Davis, and such a rich and powerful conversation that Ruby Dee invited me to speak at Ozzie Davis' funeral.
Tavis SmileyHOST
at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, Upper West Side.
Tavis SmileyHOST
And one of the questions that I asked Mr. Davis in that dialogue, Ben, was how he went about approaching the writing of his iconic eulogy from Malcolm X.
Tavis SmileyHOST
When a moment is that big and that monumental, the kind of gravitas... on a moment like that.
Pooja PrasannaHOST
why?
Adrienne ThornSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It created the false impression that I or Riverside Church endorsed Mr. Bhagwat, the RSS, or the ideology associated with that organization.
Adrienne ThornSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We do not.
Pooja PrasannaHOST
Reverend Adrienne Thorn, a senior minister at the Riverside Church, says she was repeatedly invited by the World Council of Religious Leaders and its Secretary General, Bhawar Jain.
Pooja PrasannaHOST
She received nine emails.
Pooja PrasannaHOST
Nine.
Matt HohGUEST
Darrell is getting at.
Matt HohGUEST
In a very similar way, when I just read that, I was reminded of Martin Luther King's speech on the Vietnam War in the Riverside Church in New York in 1968.
Matt HohGUEST
That was, you know, nearly 60 years ago now.
Matt HohGUEST
Excuse me, 1967.
Tavis SmileyHOST
They killed Dr.
Tavis SmileyHOST
King for that honest assessment a year after he gave that speech at the Riverside Church.
Tavis SmileyHOST
the Beyond Vietnam speech.
Tavis SmileyHOST
But Robert McNamara, Defense Secretary, rethinks what they did in Vietnam years later.
Tavis SmileyHOST
And for telling us that in real time, they killed him.
Tavis SmileyHOST
He gives the Beyond Vietnam speech April 4, 1967, as we all know at the Riverside Church, west side of Manhattan.
Tavis SmileyHOST
A year to the day later, April 4, 1968, they killed Dr.
Tavis SmileyHOST
King.
Amy GoodmanHOST
I'm Amy Goodman.
Amy GoodmanHOST
In late March, over 2,000 people packed into the historic Riverside Church in New York to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now! Today, in this special, we bring you highlights from the evening.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Let's go back to that night.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
It is our
Amy GoodmanHOST
But gatherings like this are essential.
Amy GoodmanHOST
to remind us that the gathering storm, despite the forces of oppression that threaten us all on the planet, there is a force more powerful.
Amy GoodmanHOST
And that is all of you gathered here tonight at Riverside Church, but in all over this country and around the world, of people joining together, organizing for peace and justice.
Amy GoodmanHOST
It was in this very sanctuary here in Riverside Church that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech, Beyond Vietnam, a time to break silence on April 4th, 1967, a year to the day before he was assassinated in Memphis.
Amy GoodmanHOST
I'm Amy Goodman.
Amy GoodmanHOST
In late March, over 2,000 people packed into the historic Riverside Church in New York to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now! Today, in this special, we bring you highlights from the evening.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Let's go back to that night.
Patti SmithSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It is our
Amy GoodmanHOST
But gatherings like this are essential.
Amy GoodmanHOST
to remind us that the gathering storm, despite the forces of oppression that threaten us all on the planet, there is a force more powerful.
Amy GoodmanHOST
And that is all of you gathered here tonight at Riverside Church, but in all over this country and around the world of people joining together, organizing for peace and justice.
Amy GoodmanHOST
It was in this very sanctuary here in Riverside Church that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech, Beyond Vietnam, a time to break silence, on April 4th, 1967, a year to the day before he was assassinated in Memphis.
Amy GoodmanHOST
I'm Amy Goodman.
Amy GoodmanHOST
In late March, over 2,000 people packed into the historic Riverside Church in New York to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now! Today, in this special, we bring you highlights from the evening.
Amy GoodmanHOST
Let's go back to that night.
Patti SmithSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It is our
Amy GoodmanHOST
But gatherings like this are essential.
Amy GoodmanHOST
to remind us that the gathering storm, despite the forces of oppression that threaten us all on the planet, there is a force more powerful.
Amy GoodmanHOST
And that is all of you gathered here tonight at Riverside Church, but in all over this country and around the world of people joining together, organizing for peace and justice.
Amy GoodmanHOST
It was in this very sanctuary here in Riverside Church that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech, Beyond Vietnam, a time to break silence, on April 4th, 1967, a year to the day before he was assassinated in Memphis.
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