WEST CHESTER—If we could have peeked into a hotel room from a theater seat to the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the day before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, we might have learned much about ...
That was the text message relayed by Andscape’s Marc Spears moments before I took the pilgrimage this week to the National Civil Rights Museum, built on the site of the Lorraine Hotel — the place Dr.
An iconic North Philadelphia hotel will be converted back into apartments as a legal dispute between its current and former owners plays out in court. Units in the Divine Lorraine, a Victorian tower ...
On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King while he was standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, TN. The ensuing manhunt would last more than two months and span five ...
TOLEDO, Ohio — A former toledo gem is ready for new owners. The historic Hotel Lorraine will be auctioned off on May 5 with a reserve price of $500,000. Despite its troubled past, the owners are ...
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 Guard ...
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. It is family vacation time in African America. A few years back, my kids ...
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Divine Lorraine’s New Owners Eye Converting Hotel Back to Historic Roots As Apartment Complex
Over its more than 130-year history, the Divine Lorraine building on North Broad Street near Fairmount Avenue has served many purposes. Its history includes being used as a hotel, affordable housing ...
Joe Calhoun, photographed at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, needs no reminders of the 1968 sanitation workers strike. He lived it. (Photo by John ...
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