We decided the best thing to do was to take it down.

It's a great gesture on their part.

The building has had a lot of usage by the university. The decision (to implode it) wasn't easily arrived at.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and the American culture he helped create has generally been a force of good.

It's kind of like a movie thing I guess. The demolition will be explosive, like the ones you've seen before, building is dynamited from inside.

Our hope is to somehow take King off the pages of history books and somehow bring him to life in a way that people will find compelling.