EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger has signed on to direct the feature film Slay the Dreamer, and he will also direct and produce a feature documentary on the same subject. Pic is based on the life of Rev. James Lawson, friend and advisor to Martin Luther King. A civil rights icon in…

CNN brought Donald Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord back this evening to address his remarkable statement from this morning calling President Donald Trump “the Martin Luther King of healthcare.”

“Jeff, I want to give you a chance to explain yourself, what you meant by your earlier comments,” Anderson Cooper began…

Former AOL-Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin writes guest columns for Deadline when the spirit moves him. Like it has today, on MLK Day, on the eve of the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. president, and the controversy over his reaction to comments made by iconic Civil Rights reformer and Georgia congressman John…

How could Ava DuVernay, a former Hollywood publicist and Sundance-winning director of a movie that cost just $200,000, be the one to break the long trail of futility in mounting a major movie that conveyed how much of a galvanizing presence Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was in the battle for civil rights in America…

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ABC, CBS and NBC said this afternoon they will interrupt regularly scheduled programming tomorrow afternoon to join the cable news networks in carrying live President Obama's remarks on the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, at which <img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-22902" title="martin-lut…

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