Martin Luther King Jr
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The FBI’s Persecution of Sidney Poitier
A Rolling Stone FOIA request has unearthed the FBI’s files on the trailblazing actor and activist, who was targeted for a program that brought Obama’s father to America.
- Injustice
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Leslie Jones Asks New Yorkers How They're Celebrating MLK Jr. Day
For Jones' Daily Show debut, the SNL alum asked New Yorkers how they were celebrating the holiday
- Jones' Debut
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‘It Is Time For Us to Grow the F Up’: Stevie Wonder Shares Powerful Message for MLK Day
The musician-activist says the “universe” is profoundly “pissed” off at us for failing MLK's vision of a just society
- Peace on Earth
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Joe Biden Uses MLK Day Church Speech to Call Out MAGA ‘Insurrection’
“Are we a people who will choose democracy over autocracy?" asked Biden, the first sitting president to give a sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church
- Praise Be
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King Paid the Hospital Bill When Julia Roberts Was Born
Roberts' parents had previously welcomed the King's children into their Atlanta theater school
- Stranger Than Fiction
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Justin Bieber Addresses Martin Luther King Jr. Sample Controversy
"I want to keep growing and learning about just all social injustices and what it looks like for me to be better," singer says
- Music
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'Judas and the Black Messiah': Shaka King's Movie Wrestles With the History of Black Power
This political film — starring Lakeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya — shouldn't be mistaken for history but it will most certainly educate a new cohort about the Black Panthers
- TV & Movies
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In ‘MLK/FBI,’ Director Sam Pollard Investigates Why Hoover Needed His Civil Rights Villain
By the film's end, Martin Luther King Jr. and J. Edgar Hoover — who met face-to-face only once — emerge as an inseparable American pair
- TV & Movies
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Motown's 'Great March on Washington' LP Gets First-Ever Digital Release
1963 audio document of March on Washington features Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech
- Music
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Op-Ed: MLK Offers a Lesson on Why We Should Be Worried About Amazon and the FBI
Imagine if the FBI's surveillance of the civil rights leader had used today's technology
- Politics
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