Though they get leaked time and time again, fraternities are apparently still sending dumb, racist emails to each other over their listservs. This week’s installment comes from the University of Chicago’s AEPi chapter, a traditionally Jewish frat. Buzzfeed has the emails, which are full of references to Muslim students as terrorists, Palestine jokes, and several invocations of the n-word.

Admitting Martin Luther King, Jr. “wasn’t a perfect person,” a former KKK leader says he’ll still go forward with his plans to celebrate the three-day weekend this year.

Many viewers were moved to tears while watching John Legend and Common's show-stopping performance of ''Glory'' at the Academy Awards, including David Oyelowo—who portrayed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the film Selma—and also The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement star Chris Pine.

Madonna is doing something really unfortunate on social media right now.

Fifty years ago today, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C. to march for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. There, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave what is likely the most famous speech of the 20th century. Here it is in its entirety.

A Colorado Springs boy was ordered by his Elementary school principal to wash off the black face he put on as part of an Martin Luther King, Jr. costume he was told to wear.

Forty-three years after his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr., has taken his place on the National Mall: the MLK Memorial in Washington, D.C., was unveiled to the press today, in advance of its official dedication next week. It captures the great civil rights martyr just as he was in life: Trapped in a big white rock, like Han Solo frozen in carbonite, with some other rocks piled up behind him.

Today, while struggling with the acceptable amount of happiness to feel over the death of Bin Laden, you may have stumbled across a strikingly apropos quote attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr.

You know what would be a great way for a surf shop to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy? With a big sale! On black products only. Wait, sorry, not "great"—"wildly inappropriate." [OC Weekly via Fark]

[The crypt of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta. Image via AP]

Martin Luther King Jr. hated the Vietnam War and spent the last year of his life vociferously arguing against it. But according to the Pentagon's top lawyer, King would've liked America's current wars! How does he know? Well, he doesn't.

Who's that old dude in this ad raising his arms triumphantly, to symbolize Mercedes-Benz's new gull-winged SLS AMG coupe? It's MLK himself, giving his famous speech, "I Have an Insanely Expensive Benz And You Don't, Bitches." Ah, history. [WaPo]

Tomorrow, Glenn Beck intends to save this nation from communists and other ne'er-do-wells at his "Restoring Honor" rally, live from Washington D.C. Will you be there? Because we will! Oh, yes! In the meantime, here's what to expect.

Sarah Palin will speak at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor Rally" at the Lincoln Memorial, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Dream" speech. A press release claims that there "will be absolutely no politics involved," but come on.

Rapper Lil' Wayne might be the most tweeted-about prison blogger right now. But he's not the first. How does Wayne stack up against history's immortal prison writers?

Martin Luther King. Jr. made the Southern Christian Leadership Conference one of the greatest civil rights groups of 20th century America. Today: their target demographic asks, "Who are they, exactly?" You're not that interested, are you? That's the problem. [LAT]

This week the Roundup covered the most indie film ever. "Spider-Man" is like the opposite of that, right? What if we told you that Marc Webb, director of Indie rom-com "(500) Days of Summer," will direct the new Spidey flick?

A monument commemorating slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. will be built on the National Mall this year. King's children are gouging the private foundation that is building it for nearly $1 million.

The statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pictured on the left was a little, well, "confrontational" and communist looking (??) for the U.S. Commission On Fine Arts, which approves monuments on the National Mall in Washington DC. So the Chinese sculptor who carved the 28-foot memorial gave the civil rights leader a face lift, softening his brow and turning up his lips "to resemble the hint of a smile," in the words of AP. Now tourists will be spared the apparently undesirable site of an angry-looking black men, and the commissioners indicated yesterday they are happy. The foundation responsible for making the statue refused to release a before/after picture, but Rick McKay of Cox managed to snap the above photo, which ran in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [AP]

For the longest time — even through last year's Martin Luther King Jr. Day — a Google search for the term "MLK" produced as a top result MartinLutherKing.org, a site run by a white-supremacist organization called Stormfront. No longer. But why did the hate site ever appear as a top result in the first place?