Lifetime-Betty and Coretta [2013]

Lifetime-Betty and Coretta (2013)

Air Date: 3 Feb 2013

Summary: The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands. Focusing on the extraordinary women behind the two men who would change history, "Betty & Coretta" tells the similar true stories of Coretta Scott King (Angela Bassett), wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Malik Yoba), and Dr. Betty Shabazz (Mary J. Blige), wife of Malcolm X (Lindsay Owen Pierre). When their husbands were tragically assassinated, these two women not only inherited the mantle of the civil rights movement in America, each also found herself to be a single mother who had to find a way to raise and support her children with no husband or father, resulting in a relationship like no other that spanned more than three decades.



Cast:

Angela Bassett ... Coretta Scott King

Malik Yoba ... Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ruby Dee ... Narrator

Mary J. Blige ... Dr. Betty Shabazz

Lindsay Owen Pierre ... Malcolm X

Tyler Hynes ... Mike Fitzpatrick

Ronda Louis-Jeune ... Adult Yolanda

Richard Jutras ... Reporter

Tristan D. Lalla ... Jesse

Angie Medrano ... Server

Nicki Whitely ... Attalah

Cherise Boothe ... Toni Wallace

Shinelle Azoroh ... QB

Zelia Mouana-Bankouezi ... Young Illyaha

Sylvie Chbat ... Student