Tag: Martin Luther King Jr.

People carry signs as they march following the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)

Why does YouTube think MLK’s views are supremacist?

Joseph Klein · December 15, 2017 5:01 am

A wide-ranging 20-page document from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, titled "Martin Luther King, Jr. A Current Analysis," discusses King's alleged ties to communist influences and possible extramarital affairs. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)

FBI document alleges Martin Luther King Jr. may have had child out of wedlock, held events with sex orgies

Daniel Chaitin · November 4, 2017 4:24 am

Some 400 families were displaced by the Detroit riot. Property damage was estimated at $300 million in 1967 dollars. Forty-three people, many of them innocent bystanders, were killed. More than 1,000 people were wounded. (AP Photo/File)

The Detroit riot, 50 years later

Michael Barone · July 20, 2017 4:01 am

President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up from his presidential viewing stand, Sunday, July 16, 2017, during the U.S. Women's Open Golf tournament at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Alveda King: Trump is a ‘very brilliant man’

Caitlin Yilek · July 16, 2017 9:57 pm

President Trump met Pope Francis Wednesday at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Beltway Confidential

A pope and a president of the people and of peace

Frank Pavone · May 24, 2017 7:41 pm

Pope Francis meets with President Trump on the occasion of their private audience, at the Vatican. Trump gave the pope a first-edition set of Martin Luther King Jr.'s writings on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool)

Trump gives Pope Francis books by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Vatican meeting

Alex Pappas · May 24, 2017 9:54 am

We will never achieve what the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called the Beloved Community, though, if we keep excluding the unborn from that community. (AP Photo/Charles Harrity)

Beltway Confidential

Alveda King & Frank Pavone: The legal fiction that kills the unborn

Alveda King, Frank Pavone · May 17, 2017 4:31 pm

Rapper Tupac Shakur, right, speaks as fellow rap artist Snoop Doggy Dogg listens during a voter registration rally in South Central Los Angeles on August 15, 1996. Late Saturday night, September 7, 1996, Shakur and Death Row Records chairman Marion "Suge" Knight were shot in their car as they drove through the Las Vegas Strip area. (AP Photo/Frank Wiese)

Washington Secrets

First ‘Black Heritage Auction’ features Tupac, MLK Jr., Ali, Mandela, Obama

Paul Bedard · March 30, 2017 3:25 pm

The right to vote and to attend school are rendered all but meaningless once the right to life is denied. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Alveda King, Frank Pavone: Trump is already making good on his pro-life promises, but we must do more

Alveda King, Frank Pavone · February 24, 2017 2:39 pm

Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is shown in 1970. (AP Photo)

Spicer: ‘I can only hope’ Coretta Scott King would support Sessions

Sarah Bedford · February 8, 2017 8:16 pm

Niece of MLK: Coretta Scott King would agree Sessions has done some ‘good work’

Niece of MLK: Coretta Scott King would agree Sessions has done some ‘good work’

Kyle Feldscher · February 8, 2017 8:01 pm

The decision to reprimand Warren obviously backfired. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

McConnell just made Elizabeth Warren the Dems’ 2020 frontrunner. Did he mean to?

David Freddoso · February 8, 2017 6:00 pm