Teri L. Sullivan
WKNO Promotions Manager
(901) 729-8735
tlsullivan@wkno.org
February 3 , 2010
For Immediate Release
WKNO to air In Remembrance There Is Life: A Night of Storytelling
On April 3, 2008, the National Civil Rights Museum held a powerful and emotional evening of storytelling to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination.
In collaboration with Harrah’s Entertainment, The Harrah’s Foundation and the National Civil Rights Museum, WKNO produced a television version of this compelling event. In Remembrance There Is Life: A Night of Storytelling premiered in January 2009. This production was nominated for a Mid-South Regional Emmy in the category of Historical/Cultural Program. Through the generous support of Lane College, WKNO was able to make In Remembrance There Is Life available for public television stations across the country.
In Remembrance There Is Life features interviews and biographical accounts from multiple nationally renowned speakers from the Civil Rights Movement, several of whom intimately knew Dr. King. WKNO invites you to share in their experiences as we look back upon the past forty years since King’s assassination through the eyes of those who lived and walked by his side.
“Storytelling has been an age-old tradition in the African-American culture,” said Beverly Robertson, President of the National Civil Rights Museum. “Griots in Africa would pass tradition and rituals through oral histories that allowed those who heard the stories to live vicariously through the experiences of the past…..Likewise, viewers will hear from those who struggled, fought, and lived through some of the most difficult days of this country’s history.”
Featured guests and storytellers will include one of the drafters of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Clarence B. Jones; Myrlie Evers-Williams, the first woman to chair the NAACP; Reverend C. T. Vivian, founder of the Nashville Christian Leadership Conference; talk show host and Civil Rights organizer, Tony Brown; and many more. Reverend Samuel Billy Kyles will also recount the last hour that he spent alongside Dr. King prior to his death.
In Remembrance There Is Life: A Night of Storytelling will air on Thursday, February 12, at 9:00 p.m. on WKNO and will repeat later that night at 2:00 a.m. It will also air on Friday, February 13, at 9:00 p.m. on WKNO2.
Broadcast sponsors on WKNO are The LeMoyne-Owen College and the NAACP.
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