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It's been 21 years since the door's first opened at the National Civil Rights Museum in the Lorraine Motel. For the first time since then, the museum is about to get some upgrades. The number one renovation will allow visitors to actually walk down the balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Balcony access will begin in November, but will only be open for 13 months. "We need to broaden our capacity," says Gwen Harmon with the museum. "While we can't change the footprint necessarily, but we are redeploying the space so we can free up more public space, expand our auditorium, or our orientation theatre, expand that we have that big room we have for our facility, use, so more people will be able to use it and have access."

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, today you can visit the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN for 3.00 or 2.00 with a canned good donation for the food bank. The NCR museum is the former Lorraine Motel where Dr. King was killed.

Country music recording artist Pam Tillis recorded this tribute song to Elvis Presley & Dr. Martin Luther King . She sings the song with upcoming R & B singer, Kris Thomas , a Memphian himself. The video was filmed in Memphis by local documentary film maker, Molly Secours . Thomas has an impressive music background. He was a member of the StreetCorner Harmonies , he also attended Stax Music Academy . He has performed with Isaac Hayes and Mavis Staples . Pam and Kris filmed the video back in Memphis . Scenes were shot on Beale Street, Mud Island, and Stax museum . Beautiful and heartfelt photos of Elvis Presley and Dr. Martin Luther King are featured in the video. Photos of fans at the annual candle light vigil for Elvis Presley are shown and photos from the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King . And today's StreetCorner Harmonies perform on the song as well. The song itself was co-written by Brenda O'Brien at a songwriter camp. O'Brien was one o...