In making our recent Martin Luther King special, we talked to a park ranger at the King birth site, an academic who studies streets named after King, a professor of the history of black comedy, and a collector of King memorabilia. Not all their stories made it into the final cut, but you can listen to one here:

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King is alive in the home and heart of Joseph Young.

Young collects King memorabilia, and he has more than 500 artifacts — posters, buttons, records of King's speeches — in his Washington, D.C., home.

But it's not just about the stuff. It's also about the garage sales and book fairs where the stuff comes from, about the "soul mates" he meets there, and about the power that King's message of nonviolence still holds for him.