Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson participated in WNYC Martin Luther King Day Celebration

On Sunday, January 20, 2013, GHI Deputy Director Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson participated in the Martin Luther King Day Celebration program "Malcolm, Martin, and Medgar: A Reunion." The event was organized by the New York public radio station WNYC and took place in the Brooklyn Museum. Moderated by Brian Lehrer and Farai Chidaya, the program consisted of a panel discussion with experts on African American History as well as a dramatic reading of Peter A. Bailey's play about the three slain civil rights heroes Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, and Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition to Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, the panel of experts included Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture), Brenda Greene (Director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, University of New York), and Peniel Joseph (Professor of African American History, Tufts University). The panel joined in discussion with a live audience of about 1,000 people in the great auditorium of the Brooklyn Museum, one of the oldest art museums in the United States. The program was streamed live on the WNYC website and was broadcasted again one day later, on the Martin Luther King Holiday, to a radio audience estimated at over one million listeners.