On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...

From Scraps to LetterMartin Luther King Jr. penned his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail in 1963. Sign up for our ...

A Black Journalist’s Journey,” Pulitzer-winning journalist Harold Jackson reflects on lessons from 1960s Alabama.

Gov. Kay Ivey has treated Juneteenth as a state holiday for the past several years in alignment with the federal holiday.

Today, racism in this country is still a central force that progressives are working to change. We are, after all, living in ...

Man, it was difficult to narrow this list down. There were a thousand musicians who stepped up and made statements musically ...

Word of the bombing reached Martin Luther ... Alabama. His telegram to Gov. George Wallace charged, “The blood of our little children is on your hands.” King prepared to go back to Birmingham ...