Black History Month: 25 songs of civil rights, protest and hope
Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...
I’m an MLK scholar – and I’ll never be able to view King in the same light
The information contained in the memos won’t be confirmed until 2027. That’s when the FBI’s full audiotapes, photographs and film footage of King will be unsealed per a 1977 court order.
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Local Creatives Channel MLK’s Legacy Through Social Justice Art, Youth Empowerment
Discover how Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy inspires local artists to create social justice through artivism. Explore the ...
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The Hurting Part: This ‘Wait’ That Almost Always Means ‘Never’
On Monday we mourned and honored the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., preacher, radical, orator, warrior and leader of ...
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Carrie Underwood performs acapella after technical glitch at Trump inauguration
Carrie Underwood sang America The Beautiful in an acapella performance at the second inauguration of Donald Trump, after the ...
Roy S. Johnson: Again, Black folks, killing each other was not MLK’s dream nor blueprint for us
Three years after I wrote a column on this holiday calling for us to honor MLK by stopping the shooting and killing of each other, it's worse.
How music stars, movie stars and pop culture helped spread MLK's message
How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his ...
Martin Luther King Jr.: How He Rose as a National Media Figure
More than 50 years after he died at age 39 from an assassin’s bullet, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. endures as one of ...
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[Opinion] If You're Skipping Trump's Swearing-in Ceremony, Watch These 5 Films To Honor MLK Day Instead
For many African Americans, the fact that Trump’s Jan. 20 presidential inauguration falls on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day ...
Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in killing of FBI agents
President Biden has commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, 80, who was convicted in the 1975 killings ...
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How did pop culture spread MLK's message?
It was Martin Luther King Jr. who had the dream ... in the 1963 March on Washington — including Marlon Brando, Harry ...
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‘Keep on Pushing’: MLK remembered at breakfast, but speaker highlights need to address division in America
For Shannon Rudder, the theme of civil rights in the year 2025 could be summed up with a Curtis Mayfield song: “Keep on ...