National Geographic has announced that the first two episodes of Genius: MLK/X will premiere Feb. 1 on National Geographic. The episodes will be available for streaming the next day on Disney+ and Hulu with two episodes debuting weekly on all platforms. The season will focus on the lives of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and how their philosophies both ran counter to each other and supported each other during the Civil Rights Movement. National Geographic released a first-look video featuring Kelvin Harrison Jr., who recently starred in the biopic Chevalier , as King and The Underground Railroad ‘s Aaron Pierre as Malcolm X. Also featured in the video are Weruche Opia as Coretta Scott King, Jayme Lawson as Betty Shabazz and Ron Cepahs Jones in one of his last roles. According to the official description: GENIUS: MLK/X follows both King and X from their formative years, where they were molded by strong fathers and traumatic injustices, to their rich, parallel stories as...
