May 21, 2013

Dr. King Assassination Hits AMC’s ‘Mad Men’ (Clips)

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*With this season’s “Mad Men” set in 1968, you knew this was coming. Turns out the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hit viewers just as unexpectedly Sunday night as it did the characters in the episode. In the early evening of April 4, most of the characters were together at an advertising-awards ceremony [...]




Dr. King More Into Beyonce than Obama on ‘SNL’ (Watch)

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*“Saturday Night Live” imagined what it would be like if President Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. kicked back in the White House on the night of the inauguration. Speaking to King’s ghost (Kenan Thompson), Obama (Jay Pharoah) was looking to have a serious heart-to-heart about issues plaguing the U.S. King, however, was more [...]




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Rapper DMX is 42 today.

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Actor Sean Patrick Thomas is 42 today.

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Museum to Open Balcony Where MLK was Assassinated

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*The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis plans to open the balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to the public. The museum was built around and includes the old Lorraine Motel, where King was checked in when he was assassinated in 1968. Visitors had been able to see the balcony where King was [...]




Billboard in Texas Claims Martin Luther King was a Republican

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*A Texas group has made billboards saying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, and that minority voters should vote Republican too. The man behind the billboards in Texas, Claver Kamau-Imani, said his group whose site is RagingElephants.org, tries to court minority voters to the Republican Party, reports Memphis station WREG. [Click here to [...]




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Common turns 40 today

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Comedian Chris Rock turns 47 today

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Singer Natalie Cole turns 62 today

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Broadway’s ‘Mountaintop’ Earns Back its 3.1M Investment

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*Just after the Martin Luther King Holiday, producers of Broadway’s “The Mountaintop,” a fictional drama set in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on the night before King’s 1968 assassination, have announced that the production has earned back its investment. Producers said Wednesday that the play starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Basset recouped its entire [...]




Ron Paul’s Racist Newsletters Re-Emerge with Rise in Polls

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*As Ron Paul suddenly tops a new Iowa poll in the GOP presidential race, the libertarian candidate spent most of Tuesday denying that he wrote a series of newsletters that appeared under his name in the 1980s and 1990s that included controversial comments about African-Americans. In 1992, the Texas congressman published a newsletter called the [...]




Smithsonian Channel to Air Rare Footage of MLK Assassination

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*The Smithsonian Channel announced Wednesday it will air a documentary in February titled “MLK: The Assassination Tapes,” culled primarily from local news footage in Memphis, Tennessee, where the civil rights leader was murdered on April 4, 1968, reports the Associated Press. Most of the footage hasn’t been seen on television since it originally aired. Many [...]




Angelou: MLK Statue’s Paraphrased Quote Makes Him Sound ‘Arrogant’

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*Poet and author Maya Angelou is not happy with a paraphrased quote from Martin Luther King Jr. inscribed in his new memorial in Washington, saying the shortened version makes him sound like an “arrogant twit” because it’s out of context, reports the Washington Post. The words were from a sermon King delivered Feb. 4, 1968, [...]