MLK Files Declassified: Did James Earl Ray Kill Martin Luther King Jr.?
President Trump has announced plans to release classified documents on high-profile assassinations, including that of civil-rights icon Martin Luther King.
Civil Rights-Era Abuses Could Return to the FBI Under Kash Patel | Opinion
Key nominations are drawing attention, with particular concern over Kash Patel's nomination to be director of the FBI.
MLK’s family responds to Trump’s order to declassify assassination files
Martin Luther King Jr.’s family offered their response to President Trump’s decision to release the secret FBI files on the civil rights icon’s assassination nearly 60 years ago — a “deeply personal family loss” that they are still feeling today.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he is "ready to vote for Kash Patel" for FBI director
Sen. Lindsey Graham said he plans to support Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI who has sparked controversy even among some former Trump officials.
This week in history, January 27-February 2
Washington shifts towards India; Church Committee established into CIA, FBI crimes; Truman backs development of H-bomb; dogsleds deliver diphtheria antitoxins in Alaska.
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Most sensitive of JFK, RFK, MLK assassination documents to be declassified
More than 61 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, U.S. President Donald Trump has issued an executive order for all classified documents related to the assassinat
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Trump To Authorize Release Of Government Docs Related To MLK Assassination
According to Newsweek, Trump announced earlier this week that, in the interest of government transparency, he will authorize the release of documents related to the circumstances around Dr. King’s death and the FBI surveillance and covert investigations conducted into MLK and his organization of civil rights activists.
I’m an MLK scholar – and I’ll never be able to view King in the same light
The information contained in the memos won’t be confirmed until 2027. That’s when the FBI’s full audiotapes, photographs and film footage of King will be unsealed per a 1977 court order.
Final secret files are coming out on the murders that shattered the 60s. What we may learn on JFK, MLK and RFK
When President Donald Trump announced an executive order Thursday to release the remaining government files in three of the country’s most notorious assassinations, it immediately grabbed public attention and raised intrigue.
Jan. 6 pardons are Trump’s first stop on the road to authoritarianism
It is important people recognize the links between Trump’s imitation of the authoritarian playbook, and where that may eventually lead.
On Biden’s posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey, the “patron saint” of black separatism
The widespread favorable media response to the pardon speaks to the enduring usefulness of Garvey’s brand of identity politics to the powers that be.
Good on President Trump to release the last of the JFK, RFK and MLK Jr. assassination files
Don’t expect President Trump’s order to declassify and release the JFK, RFK and MKL Jr. assassination records to satisfy conspiracy theorists — but it may be a grim eye-opener about CIA, Secret Service and FBI failures.