What did you think about Glenn Beck’s speech?
Forty-seven years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Glenn Beck took his turn. Glenn Beck Some expected him to use the “Restoring Honor” gathering to lob invective...
View ArticleWhat MLK would say today
If Martin Luther King Jr. was alive today, what would he say about the shootings in Arizona that injured 13 and stole the lives of six? What would he say about the violence that continues to plague...
View ArticleMLK documentary related to book being adapted into Leonardo DiCaprio movie
A new documentary underway on Martin Luther King Jr. is based on the same book being adapated into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Leonardo DiCaprio Lamar Waldron, co-author of Legacy of Secrecy,...
View ArticleCould fingerprint technology answer lingering questions in MLK assassination?
The FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) continues to help solve cases, some decades old. In 1972, a man was stabbed to death in his San Diego, Calif., home. Police...
View ArticleCould James Earl Ray have made contact with the KKK?
Could James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., have made contact with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi? James Earl Ray Stuart Wexler and...
View ArticleMLK monument is reminder of sacrifices of so many, black and white
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., is slated to open Aug. 28 — the anniversary of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 in this same city. “America has been waiting for...
View ArticleMLK sites can be found around the globe
If you prefer world travel to visiting Washington, D.C., there are plenty of places you can see places with ties to Martin Luther King Jr. Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza in New Delhi, India In...
View ArticleMore evidence emerges on Ku Klux Klan bounty to kill Martin Luther King Jr.
More evidence is emerging that confirms the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi offered a $100,000 bounty for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Authors...
View ArticleFormer Justice official to FBI: Run MLK prints
Forty-five years after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the one-time chief counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations says the FBI should run the unidentified...
View ArticleShare thoughts and memories on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
John Lewis speaks to crowd at 1963 March on Washington A half century ago, 250,000 or more gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, bringing worldwide attention to the burgeoning civil rights movement. Martin...
View Article‘This Light of Ours’ gives intimate glimpses into civil rights struggle in...
Stokely Carmichael’s phrase in a Greenwood, Miss., speech, “Black Power,” quickly spreads across the country. If a photograph tells a 1,000 words, millions are told about the civil rights movement in...
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