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

The U.S. government has an official plan for a zombie apocalypse Think The Walking Dead is straight-up fiction? Well, it is—but the government wants to be prepared for a real-life version anyhow. The ...

You’re taller in the morning than at night Here’s a weird fact about the human body: When you wake up in the morning, you’re ...

To see how civil rights activists adopted denim, consider the photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy ... Many historians suspect that the word “denim” derives from serge ...

Yet, some events on the Church calendar, like Easter Sunday, inspire prayers and blessings with a common focal point, such as ...

He had just finished leading a worship service when two Gestapo agents approached him. “Prisoner Bonhoeffer — get ready ...

Martin Luther King Jr. came to Young's hometown of Gee's Bend ... (Young took the check straight to the bank.) Soon the word spread through Gee's Bend that there was a crazy white man in town ...

Actor and director David Oyelowo shared his thoughts about playing Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 historical drama Selma.

I met him in Miami Beach as my friends saw the Beach Boys.

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

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg talks to Jeanne Theoharis about her new book, "King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South," in which ...

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