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“Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black America’s Main Street” 

Over the course of two years writer Jonathan Tilove and photographer Michael  Falco visited some of the 650 Martin Luther King streets, avenues and  boulevards across the country.  

“Along the way, there are barber shops and beauty shops, fast-food chicken franchises and slow cooked barbecue joints with sweet tea and standing fans.  There are brilliantly coloured murals paying homage to Martin, Malcolm, Rosa, Billie, Biggie, and Tupac. There are churches of every size, denomination, and  shade of Jesus, more preachers than pulpits, black Muslims spanning the  cosmological continuum and in Galveston, Texas, a Korean War veteran is  calling a four-foot fish in front of a gigantic turquoise Buddha he salvaged from  a Mardi Gras parade.” 

“There is a road that winds its way through the heart and soul of Black America. It may be called a boulevard, a drive, an avenue, a street or a way, but  it is always named, Martin Luther King” 

Published by Random House in 2003 join Tilove and Falco on their journey in “Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black America’s Main Street”  

Random House ISBN 1-4000-6080-X