During one week in early 2009, the youth from the Nashville’s Oasis Center filmed this short documentary to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy and its direct result, the election of Barack Obama as our first African-American president.

Molly writes: “It was touching to see youth reach out to those local heroes who marched with MLK and sat at his feet during the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides. Some of these faces are but a few of the lesser known thousands who helped changed the course of history.”

Music by Nashville songwriter Don Henry.

We should listen to him, Tennessee.

And ABC News collects the reflections of some of the Civil Rights leaders who accompanied King on his March on Washington 46 years ago and are returning to Washington for the Obama inauguration.

On a different note, the Presidential Inauguration Committee made what they say was an “error in executing a plan” to have openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson’s prayer be part of the live televised portion of yesterday’s “We Are One” (now officially known as the “We Are One, Except for you, the Gays”) concert:

“We had always intended and planned for Rt. Rev. Robinson’s invocation to be included in the televised portion of yesterday’s program. We regret the error in executing this plan – but are gratified that hundreds of thousands of people who gathered on the mall heard his eloquent prayer for our nation that was a fitting start to our event.” — PIC communications director Josh Earnest

While the “oversight” is raising the ire of many, it should be some consolation that President-elect Obama kept his “gay or straight” line in the speech that was televised at the end of yesterday’s concert.

Although born in Nashville just days before Martin Luther King, Jr.’s tragic death in Memphis, my life and the life of my country have been shaped by Dr. King’s vision of an America that was united by brotherhood and justice and that refused to be divided by race, color or creed.

Since those dark days of 1968, our nation has made tremendous progress towards his noble hope. While more work remains, his life and his service provide an ideal to which we should always aspire and which we should never forget.

While the pretty words are nice, Dr. King would probably have preferred that an initial disgust at the recording of ‘Barack the Magic Negro‘ would have prevented Saltsman from adding it to the Christmas mix cd he sent out as a gift last year.

And while Saltsman and his party try, in the words of Frank Rich in yesterday’s NY Times, to get passed the “spirited debate” about whether or not he did the right thing by sending it, the more troubling question is that after the insensitivity was brought to his attention, why didn’t he realize his gross error in judgment and simply apologize?