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Here are 10 surprising facts about Martin Luther King Jr. as the country takes a moment to remember the civil rights activist and his non-violent protests.

The Most Notorious Female Assassins In History Shutterstock By Mina Nakatani/Feb. 22, 2021 1:37 pm EDT/Updated: March 11, 2021 12:16 am EDT Female assassins have been making it into the movies and onto the television screen a decent bit — and to a pretty positive reception. Black Widow of Marvel fame and Killing Eve's Villanelle are just to name a couple that have really hit popularity of late. But ladies capable of a murder or two aren't only relegated to fiction. Far from it. Honestly, the reality is a lot more interesting and varied. Female assassins have made it into ...

, we asked King scholar and Georgetown sociologist Michael Eric Dyson to reintroduce what remains one of the greatest—and most lasting—King profiles of all time. Izola Ware Curry, the mentally ill black woman who stabbed Martin Luther King Jr. at a Harlem book signing in 1958, has just died at age 98. King brilliantly transmuted Curry's homicidal urge into a riveting anecdote in a speech delivered in 1968, the night before assassin James Earl Ray blasted him to his heavenly reward. Curry's passing the baton to Ray in the decade-long race to murder King paid bitter and ironic homage to the...