Mary J. Blige and Angela Bassett Star In ‘Betty & Coretta’

Yes! Shining a light on the civil rights struggle, Lifetime is bringing us Betty & Coretta, a movie about the friendship between Malcolm X’s wife Betty Shabazz and Martin Luther King Jr.’s wife Coretta Scott King. This is the story of how their bond formed and grew through the civil rights movement after both of their husbands were assassinated, and how they continued fighting for the causes that their husbands died for.

Angela Bassett plays Coretta alongside Mary J. Blige who takes on the role of Betty, with Malik Yoba as Dr. King and Lindsay Owen Pierre as Malcolm X.