Coretta Scott King, Betty Shabazz, and Catherine Ryan
Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scot King,
Two great women, two powerful leaders, two illustrious widows after their husbands murders.
Betty Shabazz, the wife of Malcom X; and Coretta, the wife of Martin Luther King, were estranged at the time of their husbands deaths.
They finally met in friendship on June 9, 1997.
The reason? The event?
It was the Wash DC gala premiere of Catherine Ryans’s documentary The Story of Mothers and Daughters. On that neutral and special woman-to-woman emotional terrain, these two great women met face to face, with courtesy and kindness, and with us there so pleased to have brokered what would prove to be the beginning of a real rapproachment and friendship …
Here’s to friends…
Here’s to liberation for us all…
The Man Who Invented the Timeline
The timeline (when editing video) seems so obvious it's hard to imagine that someone invented it.
