First , there was “bloody Sunday” and “turnaround Tuesday,” then there was a rally in Boston in 1965 over housing ...

Martin Luther King III and Imari Paris Jeffries of Embrace Boston reflected on the rally's legacy in a fireside chat ...

“A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to ...

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 ...

As an actor, singer and multi-talented entertainer, Keke Palmer has successfully made the transition from child star to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...