Martin Luther King Archives

An image of The Joker holding aloft a playing card with a picture of Donald Trump's face on it.
You may remember that we reported on Mark Hammill reading out Donald Trump's Meryl Streep tweets in his trademarked Joker voice … well he's at it again. A Very Special Message in Honor of Martin Luther King Day #Compassion #Tolerance #Empathy #Respect https://t.co/Kjw9PxruiA pic.twitter.com/WGOnigEtu8 — Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) January 16, 2017 This time Hammill's attentions veered[...]
MTV Broadcasts In Black And White To Talk About Race On MLK Day
John Lewis, who was part of Martin Luther King's inner circle during the events depicted in Selma. The recent graphic novels March from Top Shelf are based on the same event. The program will run for 12 hours in black and white, from 9 AM EST until 9 PM as part of MTV's #TheTalk an anti-bias campaign to get[...]
Top Shelf Donates Civil Rights Graphic Novel To Every Member Of Congress
John Lewis memoir March: Book One was already historical as the first graphic novel written by a member of congress, but its bestseller status (on both the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller list) prompted the re-release of the 1950's comic book Martin Luther King And The Montgomery Story, the civil rights book that[...]