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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: A new play about Martin Luther King Jr. humanizes the man and his pivotal year in North Lawndale
Description: In January of 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. moved into a North Lawndale apartment with his family.
Sixty years later, a local playwright… Willie Round … has written about this pivotal time in King’s fight for fair housing, education and employment.
Round grew up in North Lawndale.
HOST: LANE