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January 15, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - Martin Luther King III spoke Saturday at a dinner where the King Center is honoring the late…
January 15, 2011
Aretha Franklin has been vocal about which leading lady she would like to portray her on the big screen, and…
January 15, 2011
OPINION - The Steele era did have some pluses, but his perceived failures clearly outweighed his successes...
January 15, 2011
OPINION - The fight for a King national holiday has been bitter, contentious, and controversial from the first moment it…
January 15, 2011
OPINION - Let's remember our greatness, let's remember to be free and not slaves to every trend that comes along.…
January 14, 2011
VIDEO - A Title One school, Frayser receives federal dollars based on the number of students from low income families…
January 14, 2011
OPINION - To my parents, Martin Luther King was not some faraway figure on the page of a newspaper or…
January 14, 2011
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - "For that day, so many have died. For that day, so many have marched. So many…
January 14, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - Seventy-seven percent of people interviewed in an AP-GfK poll say there has been significant progress toward King's…
January 14, 2011
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) - Steele got a standing ovation after his announcement following a rocky two-year tenure that saw…
January 14, 2011
NEW YORK - Cops say Rayquan Williams, of East Williamsburg, followed two women into elevators in Williamsburg, told them he…
January 14, 2011
theGrio.com to Name 25 most influential African-American leaders in U.S. history in commemoration of King holiday...
January 14, 2011
Tavarez's mother, Odiney Brown, told the New York Post that helping others in need of a bone marrow transplant was…
January 14, 2011
At a Pentagon commemoration of King's accomplishments, DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson said that today's wars are in line with…
January 14, 2011
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The NAACP's state director said the group felt it was being neglected by the new governor,…
January 14, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Franklin, 68, arrived at Columbia in 1960, at 18. There, she recorded jazz and pop standards,…
January 14, 2011
NEW YORK - The rapper, now 36, has said he didn't know the victim died until police told him so...
January 14, 2011
"I deeply regret having to reschedule the shows," he said in a statement released Friday...
January 14, 2011
VIDEO - She will be co-starring alongside other well known celebrities like LaToya Jackson, Star Jones, Gary Busey, and David…
January 14, 2011
A court battle over the health and financial affairs of R&B icon Etta James has revealed that the 'At Last'…