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Martin Luther King Jr

'Django Unchained' star Samuel L. Jackson.

Samuel L. Jackson: MLK 'would appreciate' Django

Chris Witherspoon
theGRIO VIDEO - During an interview with theGrio, Samuel L. Jackson weighed in on what he thinks Martin Luther King Jr.'s impression of 'Django Unchained' would be if he were alive to see the film...
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This photo taken Aug. 1, 1980 shows Jesse Hill Jr., an Atlanta businessman and a leader in the civil Rights Movement. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Steve Deal)

Atlanta civil rights leader, businessman Jesse Hill Jr. dead

Phillip Lucas, Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) - Jesse Hill Jr., a civil rights leader and businessman who later became the first black president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, died Monday. He was 86...
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Smithsonian parallels Emancipation, Civil Rights

Smithsonian exhibit parallels Emancipation, civil rights

Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington for Civil Rights were 100 years apart, but both changed the nation and expanded freedom...
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MLK Memorial quote to be removed

Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar endorsed a plan Tuesday to remove a disputed inscription from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, rather than cut into the granite to replace it with a fuller quotation...
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American Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) speaks at a press conference for Clergy & Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, held at the Belmont Plaza Hotel, New York City, January 12, 1968. He announced the Poor People's March On Washington at this event. (Photo by John Goodwin/Getty Images)

MLK biopic 'Memphis' is back on track

theGrio
theGRIO REPORT - A long in-development Martin Luther King Jr biopic, which was presumed shelved, is now reportedly back on track...
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This undated publicity photo released by DreamWorks and Twentieth Century Fox shows, Daniel Day-Lewis, center rear, as Abraham Lincoln, in a scene from the film, Lincoln. (AP Photo/DreamWorks, Twentieth Century Fox, David James)

'Lincoln' falls short on racial issues

Javier David
REVIEW - The film depicts Lincoln as a legend without deep exploration of his belief system, and very seldom shows him interacting with the very same people he’s trying to free...
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US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Director J Edgar Hoover sits at a table, speaking into several microphones. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

FBI has sordid history of probing personal lives

David A. Love
theGRIO REPORT - Long before the recent FBI probe of Gen. David Petraeus, leading to his resignation as CIA director, the FBI had an extensive history of investigating powerful people, including the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the 1960s...
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Visitors to the National Civil Rights Museum, located at the Lorraine Motel, line up to buy tickets January 19, 2004 in Memphis, Tennessee. The museum's attendance swelled to about 9,500 visitors on Martin Luther King Day. (Photo by Mike Brown/Getty Images)

Museum to open balcony where MLK was shot to public

Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis plans to open the balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to the public...
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Controversial billboard labels MLK a Republican

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT -'Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. VOTE REPUBLICAN!' the controversial billboard reads from above Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Dallas, Texas...
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Madonna performs during the MDNA Tour at Yankee Stadium on September 6, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Cory Schwartz/Getty Images)

Madonna backs 'black Muslim' in White House

Chris Witherspoon
theGRIO REPORT - At a concert in Washington, D.C. last night Madonna went on rant where she called Obama 'a black Muslim'...
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