Dear Glenn Beck: Leave MLK out of the NRA
OPINION - The NRA, which has been in the spotlight since the brutal murders in Newtown, Connecticut, seems to be redoubling efforts to resist any legislation regulating the use or sale of firearms...
Never before heard audio from MLK released
theGRIO REPORT - The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Birmingham Freedom Struggle and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail speech at Canaan Baptist Church on May 2...
'Mad Men' recreates the day MLK died
theGRIO REPORT - 'Mad Men', the critically acclaimed AMC drama series about advertising executives in the 1960s, recreated an incredibly historic moment in the civil rights struggle on tonight's episode...
'Letter from Birmingham Jail' at 50
theGRIO REPORT - King’s letter reflected the religious challenges of his time, addressing the crisis of Christian faith for southern Christians at the time...
Rand Paul fails black history at Howard
OPINION - During a speech at Howard University, Rand Paul made his case for blacks supporting the Republican Party. Unfortunately, he was pitching a GOP that hasn't existed for more than 100 years...
Revisiting MLK's death 45 years later
OPINION - Two years after their re-discovery, restored video footage of Dr. King’s convicted assassin, James Earl Ray, in custody in Memphis as well as on trial, have been released just in time for the 45th anniversary of Dr. King’s murder. ..
MLK thank-you letter to officer for sale
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A dealer of rare historic documents is selling a letter from Martin Luther King Jr. to a Philadelphia police officer who was assigned to protect him...
Decades after MLK's death, Memphis jobs at risk
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Forty-five years after King was killed supporting their historic strike, some of the same men who marched with him still pick up Memphis' garbage — and now they are fighting to hold on to jobs that some city leaders want to hand over to a private company...
Which leaders speak for black America?
OPINION - Is there a leadership crisis in black America? A new poll suggests African-Americans think so...
JFK's complex place in black history
(AP) - Not that many years ago, three portraits hung in thousands of African-American homes, a visual tribute to men who had helped black people navigate the long journey to equality...
