ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — One of the first exhibits visitors see at the newly renovated National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis displays...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The children of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sue each other – as well as loyal family friends –...
[ABC News] ATLANTA — It was a startling development in the latest legal wrangling among Martin Luther King Jr.’s heirs. Speaking from the pulpit of King’s...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hasn’t been this alive since 1968. He’s no longer that visually distant, two-dimensional figure,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty at roughly the same time we’re observing the 85th birthday...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist All across the world last month, people joined together to mourn former South African president and freedom fighter Nelson...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist We shall overcome, we shall overcome, We shall overcome someday; Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe, We shall...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist At the White House, President Barack Obama recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 16 luminary recipients. Along with the...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Fifty years to the day that Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps...
[CBS News] Fifty years ago, George Raveling was a 26-year-old former college basketball star who was not only one of a quarter-million people to witness Martin...
by George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Although the federal government secretly spied on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders in the past,...
by Karanja A. Ajanaku Special to the NNPA News Service from The New Tri-State Defender MEMPHIS – A billing for the evening read: “Mountaintop Speech Commemoration.” It...
