Streets named for MLK on economic outskirts
Even as the memory of King remains at the heart of American discourse, many of his namesake streets are drifting further to the social and economic periphery...
Will Romney's MLK stories come back to haunt him?
theGRIO REPORT - Romney said in a 1978 interview with the Boston Herald, 'My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.'...
Martin Luther King III steps down as King Center CEO
theGRIO REPORT - The day after the holiday in recognition of his father, Martin Luther King III announced that he will be stepping down as CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. He held the position since 2011...
Fox portrays MLK as ‘conservative’ abortion opponent
Alveda King's characterization of her late uncle's activism is not new, nor is it correct...
The anti-MLK letters revealed in 200,000 unseen documents
From the Daily Mail-- One letter suggests that he gives back the Nobel Peace Prize because of the civil unrest he has caused...
Text of Stevie Wonder's speech advocating a national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, January 15, 1981
BUILDING THE DREAM - Text of the speech delivered on Jan 15, 1981 at a rally/march in Washington, DC where Stevie Wonder officially launched the campaign to make Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday...
Miami strip club flyer features Dr. King
MIAMI - A flyer promoting a Miami strip club's 'I Have a Dream Bash' featuring MLK holding wads of cash next to scantily-clad women has its creator taking plenty of flack...
Dr. King's 'dream' included justice for black Americans
OPINION - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech is one of the most important pieces of oratory in American history. Every year, countless thousands of school children commit the speech to memory...
MLK, the 2012 campaign and the American dream
OPINION - Dr. King was a longtime champion of the labor movement, and he died in 1968 while marching with sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., all members of AFSCME Local 1733...
How black music made MLK Day possible
OPINION - Stevie Wonder is without question the single most important figure in the realization of an MLK National Holiday, because his inner vision, passion and perseverance...
