The Shameless Profiting from the MLK Memorial

If you don't agree that the new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial has problems because the statue looks like a monument to Kim il-Sung, then maybe you will find this  argument from The Root more convincing. It turns out that MLK's family has a history of extracting large royalties from any …

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Written by Noah Kristula-Green on Thursday September 8, 2011

MLK: An American Christian

Like most Americans, I want the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to be great. I want it to be an awe-inspiring monument to greatness and an eternal reminder of the promise of America -- a promise that King helped make real for millions of African Americans and people of color. But alas, …

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Written by John Guardiano on Monday August 29, 2011