Summary: This week on The Lines Between Us—the path to a paycheck. Certain neighborhoods in Baltimore city are dealing with consistently high unemployment, such as the Oliver neighborhood where every fourth person is looking for work. We ask: what training programs exist to connect the unemployed to jobs—and ideally, jobs they enjoy? And, in the weeks before his death, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out on behalf of laborers in Memphis. A play now at CENTERSTAGE imagines a conversation Dr. King had with a maid the night before he was assassinated. Tom Hall discusses King's legacy with the play's director, Kwame Kwei-Armah.
