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Julia Roberts talks about Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King paying the hospital bill for her birth



- Your films collectively, when you think about this, gross more than most of your male counterparts, yet back then Julia was not played the same. So you called the studios out on that. You were the first actress to get the same salaries as Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks' money. You were the first (audience applauding) thanks to Erin Brockovich. That was historic. And this is in Robert's movies, the character's name was Anna. And you were asked how much she makes and you responded in the movie with $15 million. And that was the amount you were paid for the film even though in the script it called for $10 million. And when you were asked, why did you say 15, you said "'Cause I got tired of low-balling. I got tired of low-balling." - [Julia] Yep. - So what was your mindset back then when you realized, hey, they're making more than me, we're doing the same job? Did you think I need to speak up about this? What were you thinking? - Well, it just seemed, I mean, I didn't feel like so boxish about it, but I felt like, come on. I mean, which is sort of my nature anyway. Not to be, you know, all up in arms about something but just to say, "Come on, let's, let's get real. Let's be fair." Because I, you know, when I'm working I work very hard, I'm ready, I'm on time, I'm- - [Oprah] Prepared. I'm prepared, I'm happy, I'm all in. So show me the money. - [Oprah] Yeah. (Julia and Oprah laughing) (audience applauding)

Julia Roberts talks about Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King paying the hospital bill for her birth


A previously little-known fact about Julia Roberts is now more widely known, thanks to social media.It all started recently when a Twitter user shared a compilation video of Roberts, writing "Martin Luther King Jr. paying for her birth is still a little known fact that sends me."A few days later, in honor of Roberts' 55th birthday on Oct. 28, consultant Zara Rahim tweeted a clip of Roberts sharing the story about her birth with journalist Gayle King (no relation to Dr. King).Roberts explained that Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, took care of the hospital expenses since her parents couldn't pay the bill."My parents had a theater school in Atlanta called the Actors and Writers' Workshop," Roberts said. "And one day Coretta Scott King called my mother and asked if her kids could be part of the school because they were having a hard time finding a place that would accept her kids."Roberts' mother said sure and thus began the friendship between the civil rights leaders and Walter and Betty Lou Roberts.That led to the Kings paying for the birth of the woman who would go on to become an international star."They helped us out of a jam," Julia Roberts said.

A previously little-known fact about Julia Roberts is now more widely known, thanks to social media.

It all started recently when a Twitter user shared a compilation video of Roberts, writing "Martin Luther King Jr. paying for her birth is still a little known fact that sends me."

A few days later, in honor of Roberts' 55th birthday on Oct. 28, consultant Zara Rahim tweeted a clip of Roberts sharing the story about her birth with journalist Gayle King (no relation to Dr. King).

Roberts explained that Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, took care of the hospital expenses since her parents couldn't pay the bill.

"My parents had a theater school in Atlanta called the Actors and Writers' Workshop," Roberts said. "And one day Coretta Scott King called my mother and asked if her kids could be part of the school because they were having a hard time finding a place that would accept her kids."

Roberts' mother said sure and thus began the friendship between the civil rights leaders and Walter and Betty Lou Roberts.

That led to the Kings paying for the birth of the woman who would go on to become an international star.

"They helped us out of a jam," Julia Roberts said.




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BOSTON (AP) — A memorial honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is moving forward in Boston. The civil rights couple met and studied there in the 1950s.

Organizers say fabrication of a towering bronze sculpture depicting arms embracing is expected to start in March.

Imari Paris Jeffries is executive director of the group King Boston. He says the effort also includes an economic justice center and annual racial equity festival in Boston.

“It’s not only how symbols and monuments represent this commitment to equity and inclusion,” Jeffries said. “It’s also about how research, data and policy work to find new solutions, and how we use the arts and humanities to ground us.”

He hopes to demonstrate how public works can serve as a call to action following the national reckoning on racism sparked by George Floyd's killing last year.

When unveiled late next year, “The Embrace” will be one of the country’s largest new memorials dedicated to racial equity, King Boston says. It will be installed on Boston Common near the site of a 1965 rally and march led by MLK, who would have turned 92 on Friday.




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BOSTON (AP) — A memorial honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, is moving forward in Boston.

The civil rights couple met and studied in the New England city in the 1950s.

Organizers say fabrication of a towering bronze sculpture depicting arms embracing is expected to start in March.

The monument would be entitled “The Embrace” and would consist of four 22-foot-high intertwined bronze arms. Organizers hope to place it at the site of a 1965 civil rights rally that MLK led on the city's historic Boston Common.

Imari Paris Jeffries, executive director of the group King Boston, says the effort also includes an economic justice center and annual racial equity festival in Boston.

Jeffries hopes to demonstrate how public works can serve as a call to action following the national reckoning on racism sparked by George Floyd's killing last year.

Organizers also want the memorial to be the largest in the country dedicated to racial equity.




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