Any day now, thousands of previously classified documents related to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are set to be released — ...

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 ...

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

In April 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a march from Carter Playground on the edge of Roxbury to Boston Common. It was ...

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

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

King was in Memphis to support striking African-American sanitation workers upset over poor working conditions and low pay.

Scott King saw the deficit partly as a result of who was doing the telling. At one of the first conferences of King scholars, ...

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of his contemporaries refused to see this. While many Northern politicians and ...

Martin Luther King is shot and wounded badly ... the money for Ray's defense in exchange for exclusive rights for a book. After Ray learns that Hanes believes Ray faces no chance of acquittal ...