The group met at the Lorraine Motel — the site of the National Civil Rights Museum in Downtown Memphis — on Thursday night and said that the immigration raids are becoming a civil rights issue.

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 ...

MEMPHIS — At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists paused solemnly before a group of life-size statues, some crafted in Tennessee National ...

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On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we honor Dr. King's legacy and his final moments at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Room 306 is preserved as a memorial. Dr. King delivered his "Mountaintop ...

The three-time Oscar winner’s last public outing was in May 2023 when he stepped out for a Los Angeles Lakers game against ...

Black History Month is the perfect time to get acquainted with some of the many African American historical sites that dot the South. There is plenty of Black history and culture worth exploring in ...

King was killed while staying at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968. Robert Kennedy was also killed in 1968 in Los Angeles, while John Kennedy was killed in 1963 in Dallas.

King was shot and killed by James Earl Ray on the evening of April 4, 1968, as he stood on a second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. Friends and family of Martin Luther King ...

The FedEx Forum, home of the Grizzlies, is less than a mile away from The National Civil Rights Museum (built around the Lorraine Motel), which ... Jr. led the way for Memphis as they out-dueled ...

The civil rights icon was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968, as he stood on the balcony of the old Lorraine Motel. King, who was 39 years old, was rushed to a hospital, where he died of a ...