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 Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The shooting incident happened at 6 p.m. and Dr. King was rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m.  Dr King was in […]

UPDATE: Friday, June 26, 3:50 PM EST: After delivering a powerful eulogy that both memorialized Rev. Clementa Pinckney and called for the removal of the…

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 […]