Dallas South is excited to share with you an interview I conducted with CNN Anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien. We talked about tonight's special airing at 8 p.m. Central on CNN titled The King Assassination:Witness to Murder. You can click on the sound tab below to hear the entire 10 minute interview. [audio:Soledad Interview MP3.mp3] I started the interview by asking how the CNN Special came about. Here's her response: The project really came about more than a year ago because of our bosses at CNN, who thought more than a year ago that it was time to (take) a look at the opportunities and obstacles that African-Americans have had in this country. And the timing would work out well if you looked down a year and you saw it was the 40th Anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King. So it begs the question...what has happened since his assassination? I then asked her if she saw any differences in the way the media covered African-Americans since the Jena 6 rally. If there has been a change, i don't think it's bee a seismic change. I think what's made a big change, actually, is the election. Because ...

Forty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his "I've been to the Mountaintop" speech. The speech was delivered at the Bishop Charles Mason Temple Church of God in Memphis, Tennessee. It would turn out to be his last, as Dr. King was assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel the next morning. Don't forget to watch the CNN special Witness to Murder detailing the events of the assassination tonight at 8 PM Central.