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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Written by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963, join the WVTM 13 team to explore how the letter came to be a signature document of ...

When Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent resistance in October 1964, the FBI was furious. Under the leadership of the bureau’s notorious director, J. Edgar Hoover, ...