Living Legends

The history books tell you what happened. The family can tell you what it felt like.

Martin and Coretta live on through the people who actually knew them. Talk directly with their family, in their own recorded words: the stories passed down at the dinner table, the cost the history books leave out, the human beings behind the icons.

Rev. Joel Lawrence King Jr.
President · First cousin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Rev. Joel Lawrence King Jr.

Forty years a pastor, and the family member who will tell you what it actually cost to carry the King name, including the death threats he survived himself as a teenager.

Talk with Rev. King
Mr. Gregory Foster
Vice Chair · Cousin of Coretta Scott King

Mr. Gregory Foster

The Coretta the public never saw: the Scott family porch, the state trooper escorts the history books leave out, and what "a Scott before a King" really meant to her.

Talk with Gregory
Mrs. Carolyn Foster
Executive Director · Foster/Hill family

Mrs. Carolyn Foster

Her own family's legend: an uncle who was an original Tuskegee Airman, and the unvarnished truth she insists on telling instead of a Hollywood version.

Talk with Carolyn

These are Joel's, Gregory's, and Carolyn's own recorded oral histories, brought to an interactive conversation, with their knowledge and approval.