Samuel L. Jackson: MLK 'would appreciate' Django

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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'...