Martin Luther King, Jr.

The King Center announced Monday that Dexter Scott King died after a “valiant battle with prostate cancer.”

“We wouldn’t be talking about Martin Luther King Jr on Monday if it had not been for the work that my mom did,” Martin Luther King III told CNN’s Victor Blackwell.

She had already poured gasoline on the property when people intervened, police said.

Ossie Davis’ 1961 play “Purlie Victorious,” revived on Broadway starring Leslie Odom Jr. and Kara Young, is an indictment of white supremacy that uses humor to puncture prejudice.

“Rustin” is a thrilling, defining moment for the gay civil rights activist history books too often ignore, with a Colman Domingo performance that should have Oscar calling.