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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Jury selection is set to start Monday in a trial pitting two children of Martin Luther King Jr. against their brother, whom they accuse of mishandling the late civil rights leader's estate.
Bernice King and Martin Luther King III sued their brother Dexter King in July 2008, one month after accusing him of converting "substantial funds from the estate's financial account at Bank of America" for his own use, according to the lawsuit.
Also named as a defendant is the Martin Luther King Jr. estate, which is incorporated. Dexter King is the corporation's president and chief executive, in addition to being the estate's administrator.
The three are the only shareholders in the corporation, and the plaintiffs hold at least 20 percent of its outstanding shares.
The lawsuit contends Dexter King illegally and fraudulently converted estate funds and should be forced to repay the money and reimburse the plaintiffs' legal costs. The document, which lists five counts, does not say how much he is accused of taking.
Dexter King has denied the accusations.
...More...ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Jury selection is set to start Monday in a trial pitting two... more
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On October 3rd, 2009, the award-winning documentary, U PEOPLE (Logo Reel Movement Series) will stand as the first LGBT-themed film to be shown where civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., lost his life. At this event, conversations concerning LGBT issues in the southern United States will be brought into the spotlight.
After the film screening, there will be a live online broadcast of the scheduled panel discussion. Viewers like you, will be able to send their questions and comments to the panelists in real-time.
What do YOU want to say about LGBT rights in the South? Click on the link to learn how you can be a part of this pivotal moment.
To watch the online broadcast of the panel discussion, go to http://memphis.iloveupeople.com.
To find the press release please go to: http://suckaforlife.com/upodcast/2009/09/21/press-release-lgbt-film-breaks-ground-in-the-south/On October 3rd, 2009, the award-winning documentary, U PEOPLE (Logo Reel Movement... more
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Newly found footage of MLK, Jr. singing his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
mp3 available for download here:
http://thegregorybrothers.com/Newly found footage of MLK, Jr. singing his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
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DreamWorks announced on Tuesday that they've set the wheels in motion for a film based on the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., but two of Dr. King's offspring are threatening to sue!
Although one of King's sons, Dexter King, has given DreamWorks and co-producer Steven Spielberg his blessing, saying the film could "be the definitive film" about his dad, Bernice King and Martin Luther King III don't agree with their brother.
"This is a deal that Mr. Spielberg and his people … have entered into believing that they have the blessing of The King Estate. They don't have the blessings of Bernice and Martin King," Bernice King informed reporters.
Her brother continued, "It's not that we are against a film… It's very interesting to me that a company would engage in a business arrangement knowing that there's severe controversy around many issues pertaining to the estate of Martin Luther King Jr."
Bernice and Martin have pointed the finger at their brother Dexter in the past, claming his business decisions have damaged the legacy of the King family.DreamWorks announced on Tuesday that they've set the wheels in motion for a film based... more
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Really? A lawsuit one day after the announcement?
"Is DreamWorks' dream of bringing a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic to the bigscreen about to be shattered?
One day after Daily Variety reported that Steven Spielberg had gained full access to the King Estate for what would be the first-ever narrative feature about the slain civil rights leader, two of King's children are threatening legal action over the project.
Bernice King and Martin Luther King III have been embroiled in a legal battle with brother Dexter King, who is chairman-CEO of the King Estate, over who controls the personal papers of their late mother, Coretta Scott King. Bernice King told the Associated Press on Tuesday: "This is a deal that Mr. Spielberg and his people ... have entered into believing that they have the blessing of the King Estate. They don't have the blessings of Bernice and Martin King."
Still, DreamWorks insiders said they are confident that family infighting will not affect the project, which is in early development but is already garnering a great deal of interest from prospective writers and talent following the Daily Variety story.
Though he didn't address his siblings specifically, Dexter King released a statement on Tuesday evening saying he alone is in charge of granting access to his father's intellectual property. "The King Estate is committed to working very closely with DreamWorks (and producers) Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones, whom we chose to create the first major motion picture on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. We hope that this will be the definitive film on his life and legacy. For over 15 years, I have had the honor of being the chief executive of the King Estate Corp. and am charged with the duties of managing my father's name, image, likeness, recorded voice, copyrighted works and rights of publicity.""Really? A lawsuit one day after the announcement?
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The first question is: this is such a good idea, why did it take so long?
Answer: because the studio just got the life rights to tell the story.
The second question is: will Spielberg be involved?
Answer: he will produce it.
That's all I need to know. Can't wait to see it already.The first question is: this is such a good idea, why did it take so long?
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I found this very profound. The article below is from AP. Click the link above to see the photos.
Almost 41 years to the day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, newly published photographs of the aftermath of his shooting at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., are on a magazine's Web site.
About a dozen black-and-white pictures published on http://www.life.com Thursday include scenes of King's associates meeting solemnly in the civil rights leader's motel room, standing on the balcony where he stood for the last time, and workers cleaning the last of the blood.
They were taken April 4, 1968, by Life magazine photographer Henry Groskinsky, who was on assignment in Alabama with writer Mike Silva when they learned that King had been shot in Memphis and rushed to the scene.
To their surprise, they had access not just to the motel but to King's room.
"I was very discreet. I shot just enough to document what was going on. I didn't want to make a nuisance of myself," the 75-year-old Groskinsky said in the caption to a photo showing a group of King's associates, including Andrew Young and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, assembled inside the room.
"It's very somber, and there I am with a flash camera. So I took a couple of pictures and just kind of backed off," Groskinsky said.
There was no explanation on the Web site of why the photographs have not been published before now. A phone number for Groskinsky could not be obtained to reach him for comment Thursday night. Attempts to reach representatives from Time & Life and Getty Images were unsuccessful.
King was in Memphis to support black sanitary workers who had been on strike. The day before he was killed, King delivered his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" address in which he said, "I have seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."
He was standing on the balcony at about 6 p.m. the next day, when James Earl Ray fatally shot him with a high-powered rifle. Some of the more famous photos of that day show people on the balcony pointing toward where they heard the shots fired from across the street and one of King after being felled by the bullet.
The newly published photos include one showing King's open briefcase, a can of shaving cream on top of neatly folded pajamas and the book "Strength to Love" appearing from the top of the pocket. Other images are of the building where the fatal shot was fired and of the balcony from the building itself.
"The atmosphere of those dark, creepy buildings ... It was a little scary crawling into the building, because who knows who is going to be there? Who doesn't want you to be there?" the photographer said.I found this very profound. The article below is from AP. Click the link above to see... more
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In 1959, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to India to further understand Mahatma Gandhi's tactics of passive resistance.
Gandhi's methods of nonviolent protests had worked a decade earlier to bring independence to a nation. In '59, King was in the midst of formulating and carrying out his own plan to help bring freedom and equality to the oppressed in the United States.
Both leaders paid a heavy price. Although their methods were ones of nonviolence, they both died violent deaths, assassinated by gunmen.
Their legacies were forever linked by the lessons King applied when he returned to America after his monthlong trip to India with his wife, Coretta.
Andrew Young, a top aide to King, says the civil rights leader "found great strength in Gandhi and in Gandhi's writings, his life, his tactics."
On the 50th anniversary of King's visit to India, his oldest son, Martin Luther King III, and a delegation of congressmen and leaders like Young went to India to commemorate the historical trip.
At a time when war and terrorism are raging in many nations, the younger King said, the notion of a nonviolent means to an end is needed as much now as it ever was.
"My dad used to say that violence is the language of the unheard," King said as he stood in New Delhi looking at pictures of his father in India. "For so long, we in the world community disallowed people to express the other points of view. I think we have to learn how to disagree without being disagreeable."In 1959, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to India to further understand Mahatma... more
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Would Dr. King have endorsed Obama? The people of Washington DC, and the many visitors who traveled to the Capitol for the inauguration reflect on the King holiday and the inauguration of Barack Obama.Would Dr. King have endorsed Obama? The people of Washington DC, and the many visitors... more
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The story begins at the Democratic Convention in 2004 when Barack Obama, a little-known candidate for the U.S. Senate from Illinois, stepped forward to tell his personal story and to call for a move beyond partisan politics.
“All around were people with tears in their eyes,” Obama’s chief political adviser David Axelrod tells FRONTLINE. “And I realized at that moment that his life would never be the same.”
FRONTLINE reviews the critical life experiences that made Obama uniquely suited to launch his successful campaign to become the country’s first African American president: his community organizing days in Chicago, his presidency of the Harvard Law Review, and his rise to the top of Illinois politics, in the course of which he learned how to navigate America’s complicated racial and political divides.The story begins at the Democratic Convention in 2004 when Barack Obama, a... more
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by Stephanie Ernst
Published January 19, 2009 @ 07:40AM PST
This is the day when we annually celebrate the life, spirit, contributions, and philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr. But I'm not going to write about MLK today. I'm going to write, just briefly, about Coretta. Those opposed to the idea of animal rights, those who consider the fight for animal rights to be distinct from and lesser than other social justice movements, and--most clearly--those who consider veganism extreme could learn something from Coretta Scott King.
For more than the last decade of her extraordinary, compassionate, and passionate life, Coretta Scott King was a vegan. Really. Not an "extremist," not a "fanatic," not a "one-note," "single-issue" zealot--just a vegan.
In addition to fighting against racial injustices, Coretta Scott King fought openly and loudly for LGBT rights. She opposed war and violence and championed peace. And for the last 15 years of her life, she improved her own health and life and saved hundreds of animals' lives by refusing to eat their bodies or what came from their bodies.
On her health, she said in Ebony in 2003, "I feel blessed that I was introduced to this lifestyle more than 12 years ago by Dexter. I prefer to eat mostly raw or 'living' foods. The benefits for me are increased energy, a slowing of the aging process, and I have none of the diseases like hypertension, heart disease and diabetes that many people my age seem to get." And Coretta and Martin Luther King's son Dexter, also a vegan and, as noted, the one who introduced his mother to the lifestyle, considers veg*nism the "logical extension" of his father's philosophy of nonviolence, reported Vegetarian Times in 1995 in the write-up of the magazine's interview with him.
Every time someone remarks or implies that vegans are nothing but animal rights "fanatics" or health-obsessed neurotics who care about nothing else, who are vegans to the exclusion of caring about or fighting against any other injustices, one of the many people who comes to mind as proving this wrong is Coretta Scott King. So today I remember and honor not only Martin Luther King Jr. but Coretta Scott King as well. If I must be an extremist or a fanatic simply because I am a vegan, then I am at least happy with the company.
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
-Dick Gregory
Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?"
Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?"
Vanity asks the question, "Is it popular?"
But conscience asks the question, "Is it right?"
And there comes a point when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.
-Martin Luther King Jr.by Stephanie Ernst
Published January 19, 2009 @ 07:40AM PST
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I made this mashup honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on MLK Day 2009. It features Dr. King mixed with "Live Your Life" by TI and Rihanna.I made this mashup honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on MLK Day 2009. It features... more
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SleptOn.com: Remembering King's overlooked critique of exploitation and militarism.
From SleptOn.com: Too often, we are treated to a view of a romanticized and whitewashed Dr. King in order to fit the man and his struggle neatly within the prevailing political and economic power structures in a largely uncritical and non-threatening manner. This portrayal of Dr. King has been mass marketed as an accommodationist figure and is now so pervasive in our schools, media, etc. that it threatens to neutralize and placate the most ambitious, daring and challenging of King's critique along with his struggle to confront and organize against not only racism, but economic exploitation and militarism-imperialism as well. Due to such, SleptOn.com offers "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Struggling Not To Lose Him" as a direct challenge (as he would have it) to the views and practices of those who celebrate a thoroughly pacified legacy of a man. A familiar refrain, as of late, has been Rosa sat, King walked so that he (Obama) could run or some variation thereof. Was that the goal of King's struggle?SleptOn.com: Remembering King's overlooked critique of exploitation and militarism.... more
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Douglas Caballero and the Daily Fix present your ultimate guide to the Obama administration's first festival. Monday is just one day away from Barack Obama's historic nomination. It's also Martin Luther King day, and Aretha Franklin is paying tribute to at the Kennedy center. Rock the Vote also presents "Hey America Feels Kinda Cool Again" with the Beastie Boys and Sheryl Crow. Even so, the night's hottest ticket may be Jay-Z at the Warner Theatre, which holds only about 1,800 fans.
The Daily Fix is the first music blog on TV airing on Current TV. The 2-minute daily music news show delivers cutting edge music news and insightful opinion in compelling short doses, utilizing MP3's and user-generated video from all over the web. Hosted by Douglas Caballero, the show airs daily at 9:31am, 1:31pm, 5:31pm, 8:31pm, 12:31am, 4:31am Eastern Time and can be found online at current.com/dailyfix.Douglas Caballero and the Daily Fix present your ultimate guide to the Obama... more
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Martin Luther King, "I have a dream". Enjoy.
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Forty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. an African American will take the oath of office and become President of the United States in a country that has profoundly changed. What of the rest of Latin America?
Guevara's call to action in a hemisphere with too many military juntas led to new military juntas in countries that had not known them before in their history: Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras, Panama, Uruguay, and Suriname all had their first military juntas after Guevara's Message to the Tricontinental. Other countries such as Chile who had known a military junta between 1924 and 1931 in reaction to communist threats embraced Augusto Pinochet in 1973 who remained in power for seventeen years.
With the exception of Nicaragua Che Guevara's prescription for revolution in Latin America led to a generation of military dictatorships and harsh repression. In Nicaragua it led to a Marxist dictatorship and civil war. Ironically, Pinochet was brought down by followers of Gandhi and King who through non-violent action pressured Pinochet into a plebiscite which he lost and through persistence and patience sought and continue to seek justice for his victims.Forty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. an African American will... more
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"Film makers have been erecting a romantic image of Che Guevara from the days of his youth, as in Walter Salles's film ''The Motorcycle Diaries,"or his final days in Bolivia in Steven Soderbergh's " Che Guevara." It is important to highlight Guevara's actual message, actions, and legacy."
Came across this blog on Che Guevara's legacy and its great. Lots of information and links to sources!"Film makers have been erecting a romantic image of Che Guevara from the days of his... more
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Sotheby’s in New York has withdrawn from auction three important papers related to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. after the King estate objected, claiming the documents being offered for sale by singer-actor Harry Belafonte were actually the property of the estate.
Belafonte himself asked that the papers be withdrawn from today’s sale, said Lauren Gioia, a Sotheby’s spokeswoman. The auction house did not comment further.
The documents, including a handwritten draft of King’s first anti-Vietnam War speech in 1967, had a collective pre-sale estimate of $750,000 to $1.3 million.
“The King estate believes the documents being offered in Thursday’s auction are a part of the wrongly acquired collection,” Isaac Farris, CEO of the King Center in Atlanta, said Wednesday. “The King estate is currently in conversations with Sotheby’s to establish the truth.”
It’s difficult to know whether the papers might end up in Atlanta, as part of the King collection that now resides at Morehouse College, said Doug Shipman, director of the city’s future Center for Civil & Human Rights. If they are sold, a buyer would have to donate them or allow them to be exhibited at the center, which is scheduled to open downtown in 2011.
About 10,000 King documents his family had planned to auction at Sotheby’s in 2006 were bought for $32 million by the city of Atlanta and are housed at Morehouse College, King’s alma mater.
Belafonte could not be reached for comment on the dispute.
I have a nightmare...Sotheby’s in New York has withdrawn from auction three important papers related to... more
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The new Video for the song "Peace" by the Los Angeles based Hip-Hop/Funk Rock Collective Luminaries has been chosen as the featured Video of the day for the Indian Youtube! The video speaks to the message of peace so needed around the world right now, but especially in India after the last few days of Terrorism in Mumbai. The band is ethnically diverse in its make-up, and the message of the video is that if we want peace in the world, it starts with the individual, finding peace inside through Meditation, and the Vegan Living foods diet!. The pursuit of Peace inside has deep roots in India, the original home of Yoga, and meditation. The band has several members that deeply pursue inner peace though yoga, and are grateful that the message is being shared with Indians in their time of need!! Benjamin Davis the bass player for the band says "Artists around the world are supporting with all their prayers those suffering in Mumbai, and all the victims families around the world. We hope that our video "Peace" brings inspiration and hope to our fellow peace seekers."The new Video for the song "Peace" by the Los Angeles based Hip-Hop/Funk Rock... more
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Race and Revolution in Castro's Cuba
available on Amazon.Com and at Lawrence Hill Books. The story of Carlos Moore.Race and Revolution in Castro's Cuba
available on Amazon.Com and at Lawrence Hill... more
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