About this audio: WNYC-New York Public Radio Interview with Arthur Ashe
This is an audio interview from a 1993 taping of the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC-New York Public Radio featuring guest James Cone, a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. The topic of the show was the legacies of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, twenty-five years after King's assassination. At the beginning of the audio clip, Brian Lehrer announces a surprise caller and that caller is Arthur Ashe. Ashe shares his views on how King and Malcolm X affected his youth and their continuing influence in '90s popular culture.
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”
— Arthur Ashe
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