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

The deeply unpopular war led to the biggest and most consequential protest movement in U.S. history. Here are the key events ...

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 ...

April 23 marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rally on Boston Common, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In what became the first major Civil Rights march in the Northeast, more than 20,000 gather ...

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

I had no idea the Liberty Theatre would be thought of like this,” said Jettie Nesbitt Lights, daughter of the longest manager ...

By Brian Lamar, 21st TSC Public AffairsKAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – For nearly three months, between January and March, food service was paused at the ...

On April 16, 2007, Seung-hui Cho, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus before taking his own life. It remains the deadliest school history in US history.

In May 1943, floodwaters submerged the Russell Miller Milling Co. in Alton, with efforts to pump out the water underway.

On Tuesday, as it has since 2004, Major League Baseball is commemorating the day 78 years ago that Robinson played his first ...

Six days earlier, at Ebbets Field, Jackie Robinson had worn the home whites of his Brooklyn Dodgers and doubled and scored ...