Holy Week

The Atlantic

The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusion to a powerful era of civil rights in America, but how did this hero’s murder come to be the stitching used to tie together a narrative of victory? The week that followed his killing was one of the most fiery, disruptive, and revolutionary, and is nearly forgotten. Over the course of eight episodes, Holy Week brings forward the stories of the activists who turned heartbreak into action, families scorched by chaos, and politicians who worked to contain the grief. Seven days diverted the course of a social revolution and set the stage for modern clashes over voting rights, redlining, critical race theory, and the role of racial unrest in today’s post–George Floyd reckoning.

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  • Introducing Holy Week

    Holy Week: The story of a revolution undone. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusion to a powerful era of civil rights in America, but how did this hero’s murder come to be...

  • Part 1: Rupture

    A day at the crossroads of chance and destiny

  • Part 2: Inferno

    The Black capital of the world catches fire

  • Part 3: Black Messiah

    Who will rise next?

  • Part 4: Overcome

    In Memphis, the Movement faces a reckoning Additional reading: The 4ooth: From Slavery to Hip Hop by John Burl Smith

  • Part 5: Prophecy

    Leaders hope to stop that which had been foretold

  • Part 6: Kingdom

    On Palm Sunday, Black D.C. wakes up to a broken dream

  • Part 7: Covenant

    A settlement in ashes

  • Part 8: Resurrection

    Whoever believes in him shall not perish