Until’s Book of
the Week
“Special Edition”
The Death of a
King: The real story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final year, is the new
book from non-other than, Mr. Tavis Smiley. January 15th of 2015,
yes, Dr. King’s Birthday, Tavis Smiley had a book signing event that was held
in the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza Mall. The book signing turned out to be a
wonderful event, and what other way to celebrate The King, right!? The crowd
gathered with excitement, awaiting Mr. Smiley to see just exactly what he had
to share, besides, this is a story about Dr. King that hasn’t been told, well,
we haven’t heard.
Tavis took to
the stage very comfortably and once he began, his passion for telling Dr,
King’s story grew, so did the crowd with curiosity and real interest in hearing
what he had to say. Tavis only had thirty minutes to speak; he gave at least
twenty minutes for Q&A from the audience, though most of his answers to the
general basic questions could be found in his speech. But what Tavis Smiley shared,
was very enlightening, intellectually arousing and shockingly sad; with what
Tavis gave us, you can’t help but want to read the book, as he provided
pertinent information way beyond what we knew, way beyond the “I Have A Dream”
speech that we know and take from. 
Below are a
couple of bullet points with hopes that you will take the opportunity to
broaden your horizons of the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Enlightenments:
*The day before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
died, his sermon was called “Why America
may go to hell.”
*Years after the “I Have a Dream” speech,
he had another speech called “Beyond
Vietnam” but soon after that, he was
looked at as no longer relevant because they didn’t like was he was sharing.
* They no longer paid or allowed him to
speak anywhere. Everyone turned on him, because of the very thing that rules us
today is that what he saw back then, which was the triple threat; Racism, Poverty and Militarism.
*He battled great depression that when he died the autopsy showed that even though
he died at the age of 39 his insides was as warn as an eighty year old man.
*He died of bankruptcy and Harry Bellefonte paid for his funeral. However, Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., new his death was coming many months before, but he won
in the end.
Something to
thing about it isn’t? Though he suffered greatly, he won the war. To purchase
the book please visit www.amazon.com. The
book is also available on Kindle. To learn more about Tavis Smiley please visit ww.tavistalks.com.
Until…
**This article has been published in the California Crusaders Newspaper in Volume 27 No. 4, period January 22 - January 28th of 2015.
**This article has been published in the California Crusaders Newspaper in Volume 27 No. 4, period January 22 - January 28th of 2015.
