Rutland Herald

Museum, Lorraine Motel reopen with civil rights exhibits

The National Civil Rights Museum and Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, reopened March 1 after being closed due to COVID-19. It is a place to put on your bucket list of not-to-miss things in the ...
The Grio

I took my kids to the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. They asked all of the right questions.

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 ...
Rolling Out

National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel

Located at the Lorraine Motel, the assassination site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the National Civil Rights Museum chronicles key episodes of the American Civil Rights Movement, examines today’s ...
The Root

Visiting the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Was the Most Emotional Museum Experience I've Ever Had

Today is April 4, 2019. Fifty-one years ago today, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down by James Earl Ray while standing on the balcony outside of his room, 306, at the ...
Connecticut College Arboretum

Outside the Lorraine

hen photographer David Katzenstein ’76 visited the historic Lorraine Hotel, home to the National Civil Rights Museum, he noticed that, before entering the museum, visitors spent long periods of time ...
AOL

For MLK Day, a tour of the Lorraine Motel evokes anger — but also pride for every gain won in civil rights movement

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.
Forbes

The National Civil Rights Museum Takes Visitors On An Emotional Journey

On April 4, 1968, when a single bullet shattered the dream under an overcast Memphis sky, the Civil Rights movement was in high swing. Though a nation mourned, resilience enabled a people to fit the ...