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Editors Note: This post was written two years ago in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have helped out The Mission Continues.

If there are any milestones worth noting this week, it’s that the Focus Features thriller Promising Young Woman crossed the $3 million in its fourth week in theaters. This weekend the Emerald Fennell-directed pic starring Carey Mulligan played in 1,333 theaters and added an estimated $430K to its box office till this weekend and is on track to earn $518K for the four-day Martin Luther King Jr.

Morgan Freeman will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr Day tomorrow with a series of 12 videos that will begin playing hourly on Freeman’s Instagram page, at 8 AM Eastern time. Each video recalls Dr. King’s words, most of which have much to say about life in current  difficult times as they did when he said them back in the ‘60s.

Liam Neeson has a hit movie!

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The IFC Films documentary MLK/FBI from filmmaker Sam Pollard (Two Trains Runnin’, Eyes on the Prize) makes its debut in select theaters today as well as on demand. The release aligns with Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 18 and it is super relevant to America’s wild inequity and racist treatment of the Black community — specifically Black activists.

BOSTON -- A major memorial honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSam Pollard’s “MLK/FBI” is an arresting look at how J. Edgar Hoover used the country’s top law enforcement agency to wage a surveillance campaign against Dr.

Twisted Soul Cookhouse & Pours is hosting a special Fish Fry event on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, January 18, from 12:00 noon to 7:00 p.m.

A post shared by Demi Lovato (@ddlovato)Another celeb who shared their outrage was Common, who posted a link to a story about the decision not to charge the officers, and wrote, "'An unjust law is no law at all.' Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."«An unjust law is no law at all.» Dr.

Grammy Awards have declined their nomination in protests at the all-white list of nominees.Alistair Moock, who was among those to turn down the honour, scored a nomination for Be A Pain, which tells the story of notable Americans who stood up for their principles – including LGBT trailblazer Harvey Milk, Rosa Parks and The Rev.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris apparently appropriated an anecdote first told by civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. when she was interviewed by Elle Magazine for a feature that was published in October, at the height of the 2020 presidential election campaign.  Harris has repeatedly boasted of her parents' involvement in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Georgia Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock, speaking at a drive-in rally in Savannah on Sunday, took aim at his GOP opponent Sen.

The year 2020 is now commonly dubbed the annus horribilis — "the horrible year." The last 10 months certainly have been awful. But then so was 1968, when both Martin Luther King Jr.

On Monday I cast my early vote for Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in the Georgia Senate runoff elections. For some, my decision might be perplexing.

Highlighting the devastating impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on Black communities, the CEO of Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles revealed on Tuesday that the small medical center is overloaded with patients, with 70 people being treated in a 29-bed emergency department.

National Geographic’s anthology series Genius will become a Disney+ original, starting with Season 4. The announcement was made during Disney’s Investor Day by Nat Geo President Courtney Monroe. She unveiled that Season 4 will focus on civil rights movement icon Martin Luther King, Jr.

Vengeful spouses are not a new element of true crime documentaries — but snakes are. HBO’s upcoming documentary “Alabama Snake” takes a look at one of Appalachia’s strangest crimes to date.

From 1955 until his death, the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover targeted civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

With the majority of the Senate up for grabs in Georgia’s twin runoff elections, a new ad from Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler slams her Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock as “too extreme for Georgia.” For Warnock, the pastor who now occupies the pulpit at Atlanta’s famed Ebenezer Baptist Church where Martin Luther King Jr.

David Oyelowo is proud to have showcased Martin Luther King Jr.’s struggle for civil rights.

The Trial Of The Chicago 7 begins with anti-Vietnam War demonstrations outside of the 1968 Democratic Convention. The protesters were fed up with President Lyndon B.

Stevie Nicks has released a poignant new song that she considers a “prayer” for America during this fraught time in the nation’s history.

Stevie Nicks has shared a new single, ‘Show Them The Way’, recorded with Dave Grohl on drums and produced by Greg Kurstin.In a recent interview with Associated Press, Nicks said the song was inspired by a dream she had in 2008 where she played at a political benefit attended by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, John Lewis, John F.

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.

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.

Eddie Vedder has shared a new instrumental track titled ‘Cartography’ via Sub Pop’s Singles Club series.The song is lifted from the Pearl Jam frontman’s score for the Robert F. Kennedy documentary Return to Mount Kennedy.

It’s 1963, and throngs of Black folks have packed the National Mall for the March on Washington. Images of jubilant men and women holding flags, and dressed in their Sunday best, strewn across the screen.

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.

The nerve of this guy!

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterTo commemorate the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, in which about 250,000 people demonstrated in front of the Lincoln Memorial and Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, Facebook Watch will stream a one-hour special hosted by Queen Latifah at on Thursday, Aug.

A street in Los Angeles will be renamed after the late basketball player Kobe Bryant, it was announced on “Kobe Bryant Day.” The late Lakers superstar would have turned 42 this past Sunday (August 23) and if you didn’t know, “Kobe Bryant Day” takes place on August 24 because of his former jersey numbers 8 and 24. “Figueroa Street will soon be Kobe Bryant Boulevard between Olympic (Boulevard) & (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard).

A street in Los Angeles will be renamed after the late basketball player Kobe Bryant, it was announced on “Kobe Bryant Day.”

A portion ofFigueroa Street near Staples Center will be renamedKobe Bryant Boulevard, City Councilman Herb J. Wesson Jr.