Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Aaron Pierre, stars of National Geographic's "Genius: MLK/X," say they had to overcome their doubts to portray the civil rights leaders. The final two episodes run Thursday.
Jayme Lawson told UPI it was immediately clear when she read the scripts that "Genius: MLK/X" would also spotlight the contributions of Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King.
Jayme Lawson: Genius shows wives as equal partners of MLK, Malcolm X. Jayme Lawson says it was immediately clear when she read the scripts that Genius: MLK/X also would spotlight the contributions of Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King, not only those of their assassinated civil-rights activist husbands Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
Aaron Pierre the actor who plays Malcolm X in National Geographic's 'Genius: MLK/X' remembers his late costar Ron Cephas Jones, who died Aug. 19 after playing Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad on the anthology series