{"id":19077,"date":"2013-01-14T16:51:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T21:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19077"},"modified":"2013-01-14T16:51:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T21:51:35","slug":"mary-j-blige-and-angela-bassett-as-coretta-scott-king-and-betty-shabazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19077","title":{"rendered":"Mary J. Blige And Angela Bassett As Coretta Scott King And Betty Shabazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifetime will kick off Black History Month in February with the film <em>Betty &amp; Coretta<\/em>, starring <strong>Angela Bassett<\/strong> and <strong>Mary J. Blige.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The movie is executive produced by<strong> Blige<\/strong> and also stars <strong>Malik Yoba<\/strong>, and <strong>Lindsay Owen Pierre<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on the extraordinary women behind the two men who would change history, <em>Betty &amp; Coretta<\/em> tells the similar true stories of <strong>Coretta Scott King<\/strong> (<strong>Bassett<\/strong>), wife of<strong> Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/strong> (played by <strong>Yoba)<\/strong> and<strong> Dr. Betty Shabazz<\/strong> (<strong>Blige<\/strong>), wife of <strong>Malcolm X<\/strong> (who is played by<strong> Pierre<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen 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,\u201d reps for Lifetime said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p><em>Betty &amp; Coretta<\/em> will premiere on Lifetime Saturday, February 2 at 8\/7c.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifetime will kick off Black History Month in February with the film Betty &amp; Coretta, starring Angela Bassett and Mary J. Blige. The movie is executive produced by Blige and also stars Malik Yoba, and Lindsay Owen Pierre. Focusing on the extraordinary women behind the two men who would change history, Betty &amp; Coretta tells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}