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[…] established the The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in 1968. Almost 1 million people would visit annually pre-pandemic to learn more about the Kings’ public and private lives and to pay their respects at their tombs, the reflecting pool and the eternal flame. 449 Auburn Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA 30312. […]

[…] King established the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in 1968. Almost 1 million people would visit annually pre-pandemic to learn more about the Kings’ public and private lives and to pay their respects at their tombs, the reflecting pool, and the eternal flame. 449 Auburn Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA 30312. […]

[…] of select films, interviews, photos, outtakes, essays and more. B.B. King American Masters: “B.B. King: The Life of Riley” is a production of Emperor Media Ltd. in Association with KingSid Ventures Ltd. & Cardinal Releasing Ltd. The show is distributed by BBC Worldwide North America. Producer and Director is Jon Brewer. Executive Producers are Jon Brewer […]

*The Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy’s book, “And the Walls Came Tumbling Down” is a riveting publication that seems to have garnered more controversy than praise for the late civil rights pioneer.  When he wrote the 620-page book in 1989, Abernathy’s hope was to give readers an unprecedented look into the historic Civil Rights Movement […]

*Five of B.B. King’s adult children visited their father in private at a Las Vegas funeral home that will host a public viewing today ahead of a Saturday memorial service…but it wasn’t without drama. Daughters Karen Williams, Patty King, Rita Washington and Barbara King Winfree, and son Willie King told the Associated Press Thursday that […]

*The battle over B.B. King’s estate has begun. Several of his kids are headed to court against LaVerne Toney, King’s trusted business agent for 39 years who had power of attorney. Four of the late musician’s 11 surviving children are raising the possibility that a second will exists, and that Toney is unfit to take […]

*(CNN) — Dexter Scott King, the youngest son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, according to statements from his family and the King Center. The King Center confirmed in a statement the 62-year-old civil rights activist died Monday after a battle with prostate cancer. The third child of Dr. and Mrs. Coretta Scott […]

*With an acting career spanning four decades and multiple awards and nominations, Regina King has effortlessly embodied countless memorable characters across the big and small screens. From thought provoking films like Boyz n the Hood, Poetic Justice, Jerry Maguire and Ray; to lighter fare like the Legally Blonde and Miss Congeniality franchises, Regina King brings […]

*Los Angeles, CA  – On King Holiday, Monday, January 18, 2016, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Southern California (SCLC-SC) will hold their annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Awards & Benefit Gala in the Grand Ballroom at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Los Angeles. “This year’s King Legacy Awards recipients reflect excellence in promoting […]

*There’s some consolation that more businesses have finally gotten on board and given their employees the day off on the Martin Luther King Jr federal holiday. It’s some consolation only because most of the nation’s private industry companies do not honor the King holiday with an employee day off. In 2020, the King holiday was […]

*The website Re-NewsIt, a right-wing portal that carries the tag “Keeping the facts straight on the latest news stories,” claims to have dug up information that exposes a leading #BlackLivesMatter organizer – and recipient of Oprah Winfrey’s Morehouse scholarship for black men – as a white man who is posing as black. Shaun King, the […]

*Some of B.B. King’s heirs are due in a Las Vegas court today (June 25) to ask a judge not to turn over control of his estate to the longtime business manager he named as executor. But a lawyer for the B.B. King estate and designated executor LaVerne Toney says the family’s claim that Toney isolated […]

*Shaun King is among the most decorated football players in Tulane University history. He led the Green Wave to an undefeated 12-0 record in 1998, including a Liberty Bowl victory over Brigham Young University — and set an NCAA Division I-A single-single record for passing efficiency. Thanks to his handling of Tulane’s spread offense, he […]

*Regina King – an Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy-winning actress – joins the greats at the TCL Chinese Theater Hollywood Walk of Fame as she is now immortalized after the cement hand/foot-print ceremony. This amazing young lady from Black LA expressed her trip as little girl to Grauman’s Chinese theater … “I remember that I […]

*The battle over B.B. King’s affairs continues to get complicated as two of the late blues icon’s children accuse King’s closest aides of poisoning him. In documents lawyers for Karen Williams and Patty King provided to The Associated Press, the women allege that King’s business manager, LaVerne Toney, and her personal assistant, Myron Johnson, killed […]