On this Martin Luther King, Jr. day, highlights from yesterday's event at the Brooklyn Museum, co-hosted by Farai Chidaya. Featuring:

• A. Peter Bailey, playwright, journalist and activist; author of "Malcolm, Martin, Medgar." 
• Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. 
• Dr. Peniel Joseph, Professor of History at Tufts University; author of Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama. 
• Dr. Brenda M. Greene, Professor of English and Executive Director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York 
• Dr. Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, of the German Historical Institute, is the author of Dreams and Nightmares: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America.

On this Martin Luther King Day, highlights from yesterday's event at the Brooklyn Museum hosted by Brian Lehrer, Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Perry, and WQXR's Terrance McKnight and featuring panelists Roy Innis, Obery Hendricks, Christine Yvette Lewis, Jeanne Theoharis, Peniel Joseph, and Natalia Aristizabal-Betancur.

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Peniel Joseph, associate professor of African American Studies and History at Brandeiss University, contributor to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and the author of the forthcoming From Black Power to Barack Obama talks about the history of the NAACP and where it's heading.

Niall Ferguson, professor of History at Harvard University and the author of The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Penguin Press HC, 2008), and Peniel Joseph, associate professor of African-American Studies and History at Brandeis University, contributor to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and ...

Peniel Joseph, associate professor of African American Studies and History at Brandeis University, contributor to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and the author of Waiting' Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (Owl Books, 2007), offers historical context for the election of Barack Obama.

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"Rendition" (2007)
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