The Mountaintop

CNN's Soledad O'Brien takes a look at a controversial new Broadway play, The Mountaintop, that fictionalizes the night before MLK was shot. Inside the room where he spent his last night.

Here's a promo video - the full version of this piece airs tonight 8pm EST on CNN Presents with Soledad and Sanjay Gupta.

Journey For Change Blogging

Thirty kids, ages 12 to 16, from Bushwick, Brooklyn, were chosen to participate in “Journey for Change,” a youth empowerment program created by Malaak Compton-Rock.

In early August 2008, they traveled to South Africa with Compton-Rock and CNN Anchor Soledad O’Brien. The group returned to the U.S. on August 13.

Since their return, they’ve been fundraising and doing service project as “Global Ambassadors” for “Journey for Change.” In November, they made a trip to Washington, D.C. where, among other things, they met with Congresswoman Maxine Waters. For three days in late December 2008, they volunteered at several locations around Brooklyn: a daycare center, a soup kitchen, an abused children center, and a homeless shelter. They also picked up garbage in the streets of Bushwick.

This spring they will travel to New Orleans to help rebuild homes.

CNN asked them to share their thoughts and experiences by blogging.

In July of this year, their journeys will be featured in "Black in America 2," a CNN Presents documentary hosted by Soledad O’Brien.

O'Brien Documentary Hits #1 Again

Soledad O'Brien's documentary "CNN Presents: Escape From Jonestown," was the top-rated show in the adults 25-54 demographic when it premiered on November 13, with 2,352,000 total viewers. The program has had more than 11.5 million viewers in repeat playings.

This marks the fourth consecutive time that documentaries that O'Brien has reported have premiered at #1 in that age group during 2008. The three earlier documentaries were "Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination," "The Black Woman & Family," and "The Black Man."

"Escape from Jonestown" Video

"Escape from Jonestown" was first broadcast on CNN November 13, 2008.

In this clip, a girl who fled into the jungle after her mother was gunned down returns to the scene with CNN's Soledad O'Brien.

Escape From Jonestown

It has been more than 20 years after the world was shocked by the mass murder-suicide in the supposedly utopian community known as Jonestown that was headed by Jim Jones - but questions still linger:

How and why did 913 people die there?

Some people believe that the answers may lie in the more than 5,000 pages of information the U.S. government has kept secret.

Only a few people survived.



Now, CNN special correspondent Soledad O'Brien has their untold stories in a special program, "CNN Presents: Escape from Jonestown."

Watch Nov. 13 at 9 p.m. ET

read more from CNN.com about the Jonestown tragedy

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