‘MLK/FBI’ Is A Scathing Look At The FBI’s Attempts To Destroy Martin Luther King Jr. & The Civil Rights Movement [TIFF Review]

RIO RANCHO, N.M. -- A new documentary is diving into the complicated, and sometimes contradictory life of James Meredith, a Black civil rights figure who helped change Mississippi.“Walk Against Fear: James Meredith,” scheduled to air Thursday on the Smithsonian Channel, examines the life of a U.S.

A group of NXIVM members have enlisted the help of Amanda Knox — an American woman who was convicted for a 2007 murder but ultimately exonerated — in a bid to help the group’s leader, Keith Raniere.

Lawyers representing the estate of the late songwriter Ed Townsend in the copyright dispute over Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ have claimed that the ongoing legal battle is another example of the music industry unfairly exploiting black musicians.The Townsend estate first sued Sheeran, his label Warner Music and publisher Sony/ATV back in 2016.

Lacey Turner has given OK! an exclusive look inside her Hertfordshire home after revealing the happy news that she’s expecting her second child.The EastEnders actress, who is already a mum to one-year-old daughter Dusty, announced that she’s set to welcome her second child into the world with husband Matt Kay after a difficult journey into parenthood after suffering two miscarriages during her first pregnancy.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticAt a moment when the personal lives of artists and celebrities are being placed under the spotlight as almost never before, the secret life of Martin Luther King Jr. now seems like more than the disquieting semi-submerged footnote it once did.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentThe 1965 March on Washington was a galvanizing moment for the American civil-rights movement of the ‘60s, but in terms of media coverage of American race relations of that era, it happened in the middle of almost daily news reports, public interest programming and lively — sometimes incendiary — radio and television interviews and discussions.The Feb. 18, 1965, debate between acclaimed novelist James Baldwin and noted magazine editor/pundit William F.

The three-time Olympic swimmer and her Ironman champion ex-husband Grant Kenny confirmed the tragic news on Monday, but the cause of death remains unknown.

Sam Pollard’s new documentary, MLK/FBI, about the U.S. government's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., has been picked up by IFC Films for North America ahead of a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday night.

Also Read: David Oyelowo Chose 'The Water Man' as His Directorial Debut Because of His Love for 'The Goonies' (Video)“MLK/FBI” was produced by Benjamin Hedin for Tradecraft Films, in association with Field of Vision, Play/Action Pictures, and Cinetic Media.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmIFC Films announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to MLK/FBI, directed by Emmy® Award-winner and Oscar® nominee Sam Pollard. MLK/FBI was part of the Official Selection for the 2020 edition of the Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival.

In a time of dramatic political unrest, film has a unique opportunity to look toward the past for insight on our present. Sam Pollard’s searing documentary MLK/FBI retells the story of the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of the government, showing how FBI founder J.

WATCH BELOW: Lisa Curry reveals how her life has changed after having a grandchildThe three-time Olympic swimmer and her Ironman champion ex-husband confirmed the tragic news on Monday.“It is with a very heavy heart that Lisa and I confirm that our beautiful daughter Jaimi has lost her battle with a long-term illness and passed away peacefully in hospital this morning in the company of loving family," Grant said in an official statement on behalf of the family.“Jaimi will forever be remembered

Here’s Hollywood development for you: writer/director Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay for “The Trial of the Chicago 7” back in 2007, Back then, Steven Spielberg had intended to direct the movie, and flirted with doing so for years, almost starting several times before becoming distracted with other projects (Paul Greengrass almost directed it as well).

BreAnna Bell It’s hard to believe that Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay) was just 22 years old when he won the heavyweight championship on Feb. 25, 1964.

In 1963, the FBI began wiretapping Martin Luther King Jr. with the aim of “neutralizing King as an effective Negro leader," as an FBI memo put it at the time.

Between images of past and present civil rights protests and footage of violent police encounters, singer Teyana Taylor shows support of the Black Lives Matter movement in her music video for “Still.” Introduced as “A Spike Tey Joint" — a reference to the credit regularly seen at the beginning of director Spike Lee's films — the self-directed video combines archival footage of Black civil rights leaders and protests with footage of modern Black Lives Matter protests and victims of police

Martin Luther King III When my father, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, I was 10 years old.

Reginald Hudlin It takes a great man to play a great man; Chadwick Boseman did it four times!To have the gravity, the intelligence, the physicality to portray any of his signature roles — Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Thurgood Marshall and T’Challa, the Black Panther — is a breathtaking feat, but to give four entirely different performances is a striking achievement.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s «I Have a Dream» speech at the March on Washington, the families of Black Americans shot or killed by police officers spoke at the same site Friday, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.