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DETROIT (AP) – The suspect is described as black, in his 30s and about 5 feet 9 inches tall. All of the victims are black, and they range in age from 17 to 33 years old, the chief said…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, a once feared and reviled dictator who was ousted in a popular uprising nearly 25 years ago, has made a stunning return…
WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) – LePage’s attendance was “a political act that has nothing to do with his convictions,” said Julie de Sherbinin, a language professor at Colby College in Waterville…
SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (AP) – Mississippi Winn, an upbeat former domestic worker known as “Sweetie,” died Friday afternoon at Magnolia Manor Nursing Home…
ATLANTA (AP) – Arizona once resisted the notion of a federal King holiday — and last year was the setting for a sharp-tongued debate on immigration…
SURVEY – TheGrio assembled a group of 25 contemporary academics, artists and activists to assess the most influential black leaders in U.S. history…
theGRIO VIDEO – There are over 900 Martin Luther King Boulevards across the country. In Baltimore this street has been the dividing line…
OPINION – Leaders do not always win, but leaders always call us to believe that we are capable of making something better than what we currently believe is possible…
VIDEO – Small businesses were a little less optimistic about future business conditions in December, ending four months of gains…
OPINION – It is our fault, not his, that Dr. King has been placed on a pedestal so high that we’ve forgotten that he was human…
ATLANTA (AP) – Martin Luther King III spoke Saturday at a dinner where the King Center is honoring the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s work on civil rights…
Aretha Franklin has been vocal about which leading lady she would like to portray her on the big screen, and it appears that the Queen of Soul got what she wanted…
OPINION – The Steele era did have some pluses, but his perceived failures clearly outweighed his successes…
OPINION – The fight for a King national holiday has been bitter, contentious, and controversial from the first moment it was introduced…
OPINION – Let’s remember our greatness, let’s remember to be free and not slaves to every trend that comes along. Let’s be free to be great…
VIDEO – A Title One school, Frayser receives federal dollars based on the number of students from low income families who qualify for free or reduced lunch…
OPINION – To my parents, Martin Luther King was not some faraway figure on the page of a newspaper or the screen of a television. He was someone they had known…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – “For that day, so many have died. For that day, so many have marched. So many have been martyred,” Jackson told The Associated Press…
ATLANTA (AP) – Seventy-seven percent of people interviewed in an AP-GfK poll say there has been significant progress toward King’s dream…
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) – Steele got a standing ovation after his announcement following a rocky two-year tenure that saw Republicans notch huge victories last fall…