Cornel West is trying to give insight into the breadth of King’s thinking. The reality is that for both of these collections, there are just limitations based on what is available. All of the narrators do a fine job and the audio quality is excellent, but it is not King’s voice and King’s voice is one of the most recognizable of the last century. This is full-length sermons or speeches, but they are read by modern celebrity narrators. The Radical King, edited by Cornel West has the opposite problem.
The problem with the collection was that it was mostly snippets of content, rarely more than 10 minutes of any particular talk. The quality was not up to current standards, but there was value in hearing his actual voice. What I loved about it was that it was actually Thurman’s voice. Last week I finished up an audiobook collection of Howard Thurman’s sermons, prayers, and teachings. Summary: If all you remember from Martin Luther King Jr is his “I have a dream”¦” speech, The Radical King will round out his legacy.
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