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The untold story about how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a team of civil rights activists took to basketball courts to connect with young voters, and how their strategy echoed in politics through President Obama's historic campaign.

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00:00People tend to think of Martin Luther King saying,

00:04I have a brain.

00:05But he was a young man.

00:06And he really played a decent game of basketball.

00:11In the Civil Rights Movement, nobody

00:13knew about what was going on in the South.

00:16And we had to do something about it.

00:19The only thing we could do was go where the kids were.

00:22They were on the basketball court.

00:25To know that Martin Luther King could have played their game

00:28makes them listen, and then you could

00:30talk to them about trying to stop violence in the streets.

00:34Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he gave us the playbook.

00:38The first time I played basketball with Barack Obama,

00:40he says to me, we want to win, but we want their support, too.

00:43We played every election day for a year.

00:47Martin Luther King, Barack Obama.

00:49Their destiny is connected to each other with basketball.

00:54Basketball, it lends itself to all these unifying elements

00:58than make it a perfect fixture for a movement.

01:02Martin Luther King could redeem the soul of this nation.

01:07He'd say, what is it you're willing to give your life for?

Hoops, Hopes & Dreams - Trailer (2025)

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