Franklin County spent $320,000 on DEI trips, including civil rights tours, private drag show
Franklin County is paying for civil rights tours for employees that include museums, live blues club music and a private drag ...
I took my kids to the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. They asked all of the right questions.
In the middle of our week down South, we drove three hours from my parents’ home in northern Alabama to Memphis to visit the ...
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Witness to Martin Luther King Jr. assassination speaks out
Mary Ellen Ford was a 21-year-old cook at Memphis’ Lorraine Motel in April 1968, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. checked in for the last time. King, who was in town to help lead ...
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History in the making: American Stage humanizes a saint with ‘The Mountaintop’
Enter Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel and meet a Civil Rights icon on the final night of a legendary life. It’s April 3, 1968, ...
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On a Photo of the Lorraine Motel
bullet smashed his jaw (the pulpit for his words). Throats filled with the blues mourned that night all through Memphis, and the Mississippi wailed. The words of “Sweet Lorraine” were banished from ...
U.S. News & World Report6d
National Civil Rights Museum - Lorraine Motel
Recent travelers agreed the National Civil Rights Museum should be at the top of anyone's list of things to see in Memphis. Housed in the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was ...
“What Is My Legacy?” Martin Luther King III's New Book Offers a Path to Fulfillment — Read an Excerpt (Exclusive)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s son wrote the book with wife Arndrea Waters King and legacy architects Marc Kielburger and Craig ...
Daily Reporter26d
John Krull: MLK, the forgotten and the forgetting
The building was still the Lorraine Motel, a local business straining to keep its doors open surrounded by a neighborhood straining to get back on its feet. King had come to Memphis in the spring ...
Commercial Appeal26d
2024 Freedom Award ceremony: Spike Lee, Xernona Clayton and Sherrilyn Ifill honored
"Memphis is a Black city — these are my people ... Wigginton on Thursday night called the "sacred ground" of the Lorraine Motel. Close to 100 honorees have received the award over the past ...
The Washington Post17d
Tom Jarriel, ABC news correspondent and anchor, dies at 89
Just months after he joined ABC, he was the only network news correspondent sent to cover King’s visit to Memphis to support striking sanitation workers. Mr. Jarriel raced to the Lorraine Motel ...
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Cheap Flights from Lorraine to Memphis International
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US elections: In the shadow of history, Blacks confront a defining political choice
The community largely remains with Democrats in swing states, but there is a clear dent in the Democratic base as Donald Trump’s appeal grows among Black men. Tennessee/Pennsylvania/North ...