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News broadcaster Walter Cronkite was almost done with his shift when he received word that Dr. King was assassinated. Watch the first announcement of Dr. King’s death here….   Civil Rights Leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on April 4, 1968 as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine […]

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Friends, family and loved ones will gather early Friday afternoon to pay their last respects to South Carolina State Senator Clementa Pinckney. Pinckney, one of…

Dr. Martin Luther King, JR was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was gunned down as he stood on the balcony of his hotel room at the Lorraine Hotel. A one-mile stretch road in Memphis is named in Dr. King’s honor today. While Dr. King felt his dream was a disaster because of […]

Via:  www.newsone.com // Mehlman/News; Haggins/AP The man who murdered Malcolm X with a 1965 shotgun blast was released Tuesday from prison. Thomas Hagan, who turned 69 this month, walked out of the Lincoln Correctional Facility around 11 a.m., said state corrections spokeswoman Linda Foglia. Click here to view photos. Hagan was spending two nights a […]