The King Center and voting rights advocacy group Black Voters Matter are uniting to influence a new generation of activists.

Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...

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

The National Civil Rights Museum held a moving tribute to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his assassination. Speakers at the event, including State ...

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 ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

The National Civil Rights Museum held a moving tribute to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on the ...