Martin Luther King Jr. was such an iconic figure in American history that any actor cast to play him faced an unenviable ... worthy performance in the biopic Selma, the film attempted to tell ...

If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech ... And we will deal with the cards that have been played.” All three Selma marchers, Harris, Carrington and Lowery, wanted America to change ...

On MLK Day, whispers of memories of my time in Selma, Alabama, return. They’re dream-like recollections, faint but never forgotten, blurry with sharp edges. At dawn six years ago, I walked ...

The Triplex Cinema will host a free community screening of Ava DuVernay’s Academy Award-winning film “Selma” at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 20, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The screening will be followed ...

In 1965, he helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches. King was assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025 will be observed on ...

Linda Lowery was just 14 years old in 1965 when she marched 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery ... Black teenagers were with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that day, taking it upon themselves ...

During Selma's 60th anniversary of the voting rights ... She and several other Black teenagers were with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that day, taking it upon themselves to demonstrate for ...