Martin Luther King.

Today’s 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death is a good time to remind yourself just why he’s an America’s Super Hero.

Watch King in the Wilderness, (HBO). After civil rights victories, King begins to champion against poverty, militarism and racism.  His growing resolve unleashes enormous wrath from under every rock. That he survives — to be assassinated is head-shaking.

Catch the Martin Luther King episode tonight (or later online) on the I AM series on Paramount Network . The documentary series is an inside look at the lives of extraordinary individuals, told by the people who knew them best.

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Leave a tribute to him on the Nobel Prize web site. While you’re there, read his bio and listen to the acceptance speech he  gave in Oslo. Factoid: He is the youngest male to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. (Photo from History Channel; King smiles to learn he has won the Nobel Prize.)

Do not miss today’s Google Doodle; it’s an audio and visual performance of Angelou’s poem, I Shall Rise.  The 50th anniversary of Dr King’s death also happens to be what would have been Maya Angelou’s 90th birthday and her poem serves them both.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like life, I’ll rise.