Read more of Kim Lawton's interview about Martin Luther King Jr. with the Reverend Mary Jo Smiley.

"Dr. King liked jazz," says Rev. Michael Haynes of Twelfth Baptist Church in Boston, who invited his brother, renowned jazz drummer Roy Haynes, to be part of a special musical service honoring King.

As one of the surviving leaders of the civil rights movement, Lewis wants to make sure the role of faith in changing the nation is never forgotten.

Read more of Kim Lawton's interview with Rep. John Lewis about religion and the civil rights movement.

Thirty-five years after his death, the nation is still coming to terms with the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Theologians, activists, politicians, and historians continue to discuss King's legacy -- and so do artists.

Howard Thurman had a profound spiritual impact on civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. Yet for much of the last half century Thurman's contributions have often been overlooked. Now, more than 20 years after his death in 1981, Howard Thurman is finding a new audience.

Read more of our interview with Walter Fluker, director and editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project at Morehouse College.

Read more of our interview with Dr. Robert Franklin, President of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, who describes prominent African-American scholar and activist Howard Thurman as a "21st-century theologian working in the middle of the 20th century."