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Winfrey to co-produce film on Martin Luther King

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 06:55

Chat show host Oprah Winfrey will produce a new movie titled “Selma”, based on the life of Martin Luther King.

In US, parallels seen between Mandela, Martin Luther King

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 21:11

Standing on the balcony outside Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on a clear and cool November day in 2000, Nelson Mandela couldn`t help but weep.

Obama pays homage to Mandela, calls him `giant of history`

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 19:29

America`s first black President Barack Obama today paid a moving tribute to his inspiration Nelson Mandela, calling him a "giant of history" and comparing the anti-apartheid icon with the likes of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln.

Cold War documents show NSA spied on US senators

Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 13:18

National Security Agency eavesdropped on civil rights icon Martin Luther King and boxer Muhammad Ali and critics of Vietnam War in secret "disreputable" program, declassified documents have revealed.

Obama leads the nation in commemorating `March on Washington`

Last Updated: Thursday, August 29, 2013, 09:29

Paying rich tribute to Martin Luther King, Obama said America changed, because they kept marching.

Martin Luther King would be amazed by progress: Obama

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 17:01

America`s first black president Barack Obama has said that the civil rights leader would have been "amazed in many ways" about the progress in the country.

Marchers mark 50 yrs since Martin Luther King Jr.`s `Dream` speech

Last Updated: Sunday, August 25, 2013, 09:49

Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in Washington today.

50 years after King, marchers gather in capital

Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2013, 00:25

Next week, the first black US president, a living symbol of the racial progress civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr dreamed about, will stand near the spot where King stood 50 years ago.

Barack Obama to mark 50th anniversary of MLK`s `dream` speech

Last Updated: Thursday, August 8, 2013, 09:56

US President Barack Obama will mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King`s "I have a dream" speech.

Gandhi`s `Satyagraha` first took root in South Africa: Obama

Last Updated: Sunday, June 30, 2013, 20:49

US President Barack Obama on Sunday donned a teacher`s hat to tell his two young daughters how Mahatma Gandhi`s `Satyagraha` had influenced American civil rights leader Martin Luther King to fight injustice.

Forest Whitaker to play Martin Luther King Jr in film?

Last Updated: Saturday, June 1, 2013, 09:20

Forest Whitaker has been tipped to play civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr in a new movie.

Boston suspect disrupted mosque on Martin Luther King Day

Last Updated: Monday, April 22, 2013, 11:26

Tamerlan Tsarnaev had objected to a sermon at a Cambridge mosque in which the speaker compared the Prophet with civil rights leader Martin Luther King, a mosque official said.