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HBO documentary 'King in the Wilderness' is a powerful look at the last years of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life

It is almost half a century to the day since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in a motel in Memphis, Tenn., and in that span he has been apotheosized into something close to legend.

So much so, in fact, that we run the risk of not spending enough time with the actual man, of not knowing as much as we should about the controversial final years that reveal an individual more radical, and

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