Martin Luther King Jr

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January 18, 2013
ATLANTA (AP) - President Barack Obama plans to use a Bible that belonged to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.…
January 17, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Dr. Martin Luther King's estate has recently filed a lawsuit against Maude Ballou, the late leader's secretary…
January 15, 2013
OPINION - If my father could see his work and his Bible still inspiring our country after all these years,…
January 11, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Ward and his supporters are planning to turn out on January 19th at gun stores, shows, ranges…
January 10, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) has announced the Bibles that will be used by President Obama and…
January 8, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama has picked Myrlie Evers-Williams to deliver the invocation at his second inauguration later this…
December 21, 2012
theGRIO VIDEO - During an interview with theGrio, Samuel L. Jackson weighed in on what he thinks Martin Luther King…
December 18, 2012
ATLANTA (AP) - Jesse Hill Jr., a civil rights leader and businessman who later became the first black president of…
December 17, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington for Civil Rights were…
December 12, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar endorsed a plan Tuesday to remove a disputed inscription from the Martin Luther…
November 18, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A long in-development Martin Luther King Jr biopic, which was presumed shelved, is now reportedly back on…
November 16, 2012
REVIEW - The film depicts Lincoln as a legend without deep exploration of his belief system, and very seldom shows…
November 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Long before the recent FBI probe of Gen. David Petraeus, leading to his resignation as CIA director,…
November 2, 2012
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis plans to open the balcony where Martin Luther King…
October 29, 2012
theGRIO REPORT -'Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. VOTE REPUBLICAN!' the controversial billboard reads from above Martin Luther King…
September 25, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - At a concert in Washington, D.C. last night Madonna went on rant where she called Obama 'a…
August 28, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - A year after the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial opened to visitors in Washington, the group behind…
August 21, 2012
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) - A U.S. man says he has discovered the audio tape of a forgotten interview with civil…
August 1, 2012
Actor Hugh Jackman is signing on for a potentially controversial historical drama which looks at a lawyer's attempt to exonerate…
July 31, 2012
VIDEO - When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to sit at the back of the bus, Thelma…