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

Dublin is honoring their connection to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this weekend with their "One Day" civil rights experience ...

Documents related to the 1968 assassinations of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy will soon be made public as more than 100 people have been working “around the clock ...

Two deeper histories on people mentioned in a recent column: a famous orator and a mother and son who survived the Holocaust.

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

Kenneth B. Morris Jr.’s family treasures have always been American treasures. Morris, 62, is the great-great-great-grandson of abolitionist and orator, Frederick Douglass, and great-great-grandson of ...

Hotel magnate Conrad Hilton fulfilled his dream to purchase the Waldorf-Astoria in 1949. He called the luxury hotel on Park ...

The National Civil Rights Museum held a moving tribute to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary ... The tone of many of the speeches was that the fight is not ...

Family members and fellow students were able to learn about well-known figures March 20 through East Amory Elementary School’s wax museum. Roughly 100 third-graders played the parts of ...

A portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hangs on the wall of the Jasper family home. It’s the first thing you see when you ...

Jackie Robinson did more than break Major League Baseball’s color barrier. The Hall of Famer was also a journalist, bank ...