Tavis Smiley will travel to Memphis to broadcast his PBS late-night talk show from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, March 31 through April 4, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.       

In addition, The Tavis Smiley Show from PRI (Public Radio International) will broadcast Thursday, April 3 at 9-11 a.m. from the historic Mason Temple, the site of Dr. King's "I've been to the Mountaintop" speech delivered April 3, 1968 the night before his death.       

For the PRI broadcast, Tavis will lead a discussion about the speech and Dr. King's legacy before a live audience with guests including Martin Luther King III, Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Cotton, Clarence Jones, and Beverly Robertson as well as historian Clayborne Carson, Earl Caldwell, the New York Times journalist who witnessed the assassination, and Bishop Charles Blake, presiding Bishop of Church of God in Christ and Mason Temple.      

Throughout the week, Tavis Smiley's PBS program will feature guests who were touched by the life of Dr. King, including actor and King colleague Harry Belafonte; Rev. Al Sharpton; Princeton professor Dr. Cornel West; Monumental Baptist Church's Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles; former King attorney Clarence B. Jones; Taylor Rogers, one of the striking Memphis sanitation workers in 1968; former King secretary Dorothy Cotton; Beverly Robertson, executive director of the Civil Rights Museum; and minister/social commentator Michael Eric Dyson.