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Academy Award Winner Julia Roberts Says Martin Luther King Jr. And Coretta Scott King Paid For Her Birth
JULIA ROBERTS AND REV. MARTINLUTHER KING, JR., AND WIFE CORETTA SCOTT KING
Now here are two names you wouldn’t expect to men- tion in the same sentence: Julia Roberts and Martin Luther King, Jr.
The 2001 Golden Globe winner for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for the movie Erin Brockovich, celebrated her birthday on Oct. 28, and a Twitter user shared a video of Roberts in conversation with Gayle King in honor of it.
In an interview for the History television network last month the actress shared that Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King paid the hospi- tal bill for her birth because her parents could not afford to.
King started, “Just wanted to take a step back
for you, Julia, because you have two historical figures that I’ll bet most people don’t know this about you...”
Roberts complimented King on her research skills before answering:
Roberts revealed that her parents, Walter “Rob” Roberts and Betty Roberts, became friends with the civil rights leaders after Coretta called their theatre school to enroll her children. The actress said the activists could not find a place that would accept their Black children at the time.
King continued the inter- view, “Yeah because in the 60s you didn’t have little Black children interacting with little white kids in act- ing school and your parents were like come on in.”
Reality TV Star Trina Braxton Files Police Report After Somebody Keyed Her Car While Voting In Georgia
Voting contention in Geor- gia is at an all-time high ahead of the 2022 midterms, and re- ality television personality, Trina Braxton is the latest victim experiencing the nega- tive effects.
The Braxton sister from WE tv‘s, Braxton Family Val- ues, posted a video on Insta- gram showing that someone had keyed her car. The singer
and sibling of the iconic R&B artist, Toni Braxton, said the incident happened while she was voting at the “Aquatic Center off of North Bogan Drive and Gwinnett,” in Geor- gia—a predominantly white area according to Braxton.
The Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Gwinnett County was just 30 percent Black in 2020.
TRINA BRAXTON
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