Film
Harlem resident Lee Daniels is firming up the cast of “Selma,” his civil rights follow-up to “Precious,” even as its funding is on shaky ground.
David Oyelowo, the British actor who appeared in “A Raisin in the Sun” and stars in George Lucas’ “Red Tails,” will play the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Continue reading
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The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has charged the foundation building a monument to the civil rights leader on the National Mall about $800,000 for the use of his words and image — an arrangement one leading scholar says King would have found offensive.
The memorial — including a 28-foot sculpture depicting King emerging from a chunk of granite — is being paid for almost entirely with private money in a fundraising campaign led by the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation. The monument will be turned over to the National Park Service once it is complete.
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By February 1966, Elsie Richardson had grown tired of joining public officials on tours of Bedford-Stuyvesant, each visit ending only in another promise to study the neighborhood’s struggles: poverty, education, unemployment and blighted housing. Continue reading
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