Focusing on the extraordinary women behind the two men who would change history, " Betty & Coretta " tells the similar true stories of Coretta Scott King (Angela Bassett), wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Malik Yoba), and Dr. Betty Shabazz (Mary J. Blige), wife of Malcolm X (Lindsay Owen Pi... Read more...
The grandson of late civil rights leader Malcolm X was arrested by the FBI on Monday on his way to Iran to attend a Hollywoodism conference. The Hollywoodism conference occurs annually and brings together filmmakers, directors, actors, and movie critics as well as politicians and economists who ... Read more...
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. penned these words in Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, the last book he published before his assassination in 1968. More than forty years after Dr... Read more...
...like Trayvon Martin America loves Black men like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and even Trayvon Martin - after they are dead... TRAYVON MARTIN is more valuable to America as a dead young black man then he ever was alive! As a dead symbol, the president can claim him as a son ... Read more...
Annie Spencer Annie Bethel Spencer was a poet and active participant in the New Negro Movement and Harlem Renaissance period. Anne was the first Virginian and first African-American to have her poetry included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry. Also an activist ... Read more...
MayaAngelo Maya Angelou is an amazing author and poet. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her first seventeen ... Read more...
Samuel L. Jackson will make his Broadway debut as Dr. Martin Luther King in the Broadway production of Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop." "The Mountaintop" - which re-imagines events the night before the 1968 assassination of the civil rights leader - is being directed by Tony Award Nominee... Read more...
IAmNotADictionary Phrase Of The Day: March 30th - Official #Fail Day - Today marks the day that it all went wrong. Today is the anniversary of one of the most (if not the most) major fail in the history of Amerikkka. 30 Years ago on this day (March 30th) in 1981, only 69 days into his preside... Read more...
// < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ var impressionPostSlug = "lost-in-translation-is-dr-kings-dream-a-beautiful-nightmare"; var impressionPostId = "524552"; // ]]> When this episode of The Boondocks aired with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr saying the N-word there was a considerably amou... Read more...