VOX ATL Teen Staff Reflects On The Impact Of ‘Our Friend Martin’

For many teens, the movie “Our Friend Martin” led to the further exploration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.

screenshot from “Our Friend Martin / Courtesy of VOX ATL

By Khalil Shipman

In 1999, the “Our Friend Martin” movie was released.

Most of the cast for “Our Friend Martin” was top-billing in the ’90s. Whoopi Goldberg, LeVar Burton, Samuel L. Jackson, James Earl Jones, Angela Bassett, Jaleel White, Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey were just a portion of the star-studded cast.