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Lightfoot Solomon Michaux: The Black preacher and broadcaster who feuded with MLK

6:46pm March 15, 2025

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a renowned Black preacher and broadcaster. Radio Diaries' series "Making Waves" looks at his life and his contentious relationship with Martin Luther King Jr.

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The 1936 film You Can't Get Away With It about the FBI portrays a typical G-man of the era, complete with machine gun.

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Politics & Government

The Massive Case Of Collective Amnesia: The FBI Has Been Political From The Start

3:24pm January 26, 2018

by Ron Elving

The fact is, controversy about the FBI is anything but new. And political goals of one kind or another have been part of the reason for the agency since its inception.

Music & Culture

'Louie Louie': Indecipherable, Or Indecent? An FBI Investigation

10:26am May 02, 2015

by NPR Staff

The Kingsmen's 1963 version of the song was a huge hit — though no one could make out the words. Some fevered imaginations and misheard lines led to an FBI investigation into alleged obscenity.

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