Civil Rights on the Joe Rogan Experience
2 fact-checked claims across 2 episodes · Oct 2019 · updated Jul 16, 2026
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- Dr. Cornel West (1)
- Edward Snowden (1)
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“Martin Luther King Jr. died. Basically a broke man. Gave every penny that he won from the Nobel Prize to the movement. Malcolm X only had $150 in his pocket.”
West claims MLK died broke after giving away his Nobel Prize money, and Malcolm X had only $150 in his pocket when he died.
“The FBI was spying on Martin Luther King and trying to get Martin Luther King to kill himself before the Nobel Prize was going to be awarded. In fact, after ML…”
Snowden claims the FBI spied on Martin Luther King Jr., tried to induce him to kill himself before he received the Nobel Peace Prize, and that two days after his 'I Have a Dream' speech the FBI classified him as the nation's greatest domestic security threat.