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DreamWorks wants unity before making King biopic

May. 20, 2009
DreamWorks says it wants to make a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. "provided that there is unity" among the civil rights icon's children. The studio announced a deal this week with The King Estate for a movie about the civil rights icon. But two of King's...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch