Gawker 
Enter your username and password.
-
more about #martinlutherkingjr more comments → freedc: I think people on here are being pretty dramatic with their 'the kids are tarnishing Dr. King' talk. What he stands for his bigger than his own flaws ... more » miss_msry: The King children could single-handedly make his memory obsolete. more » LatestBy: I've been to the mountaintop, and it's made of cash money. more » HiredGoons: Nature vs. Nurture? more » Rasselas: Slate takes pleasure in destroying everything good and beautiful in the world, but sometimes they make a correct call by mistake: [www.slate.com] more » CaptainFantastic: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content... more » Ensconced: I don't recall the name of the program in particular (it may have been 60 Minutes) but a few years back there was a story about the licensing of King'... more » Spirit Fingers: This is not a happy Friday send-off story. more » morninggloria: Whenever I need to remember Martin Luther King, I just gaze, misty eyed, at Glenn Beck. more » Smitros: Another outrage is the Memorial's being designed and I believe in China in a way that makes King look much more like a Chinese emperor than like himse... more » Hamilton Nolan: Sucks. more » Stream Of Consciousness: Wow...just wow. Way to honor that great mans legacy. more » Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate: Unrelated, can anyone prove I'm not Santa's only child? more » -
#shakedowns
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Children Are Shameless, Greedy Shakedown Artists
A monument commemorating slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. will be built on the National Mall this year. King's children are gouging the private foundation that is building it for nearly $1 million. More » -
#martinlutherkingjr
Angry Black Statue Given Smiley Face
The statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pictured on the left was a little, well, "confrontational" and communist looking (??) for the U.S. Commission On Fine Arts, which approves monuments on the National Mall in Washington DC. So the Chinese sculptor who carved the 28-foot memorial gave the civil rights leader a face lift, softening his brow and turning up his lips "to resemble the hint of a smile," in the words of AP. Now tourists will be spared the apparently undesirable site of an angry-looking black men, and the commissioners indicated yesterday they are happy. The foundation responsible for making the statue refused to release a before/after picture, but Rick McKay of Cox managed to snap the above photo, which ran in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [AP]
