Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America

Written and Narrated By: Michael Eric Dyson

Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins

A wandering academic treatise… with flourishes of purple prose…

(Abridged)

By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / Editor: Clayborne Carson / Narrated By: Levar Burton

Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins

BeYONd inspiring; beYONd heartbreaking. Just truly excellent!

Series: The Radical King

By: Martin Luther King Jr. / Editor: Cornel West / Narrated By: LeVar Burton, Gabourey Sidibe, Cornel West, Mike Colter, Danny Glover, Wanda Sykes, Leslie Odom Jr., Michael K. Williams

Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins

More notable for Cornel West’s Commentary—soooo, I think, while this is good, I’m looking for MLK Jr’s Autobiography narrated by LeVar Burton to be better

The Montgomery Story

Series: The King Legacy

By: Martin Luther King Jr. / Narrated By: JD Jackson

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Ponderous narration (And I mean PONDEROUS!) doesn’t mar this incredibly fine account

The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year

By: Tavis Smiley, David Ritz / Narrated By: Tavis Smiley

Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins

Fraught narration sometimes mars a good account