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 ...

Annapolis officials and civil rights leaders are expected to unveil a memorial to Parren J. Mitchell, Maryland’s first ...

I woke up at three o’clock one morning thinking about the Navajo code talkers from World War II and how the Pentagon removed them from its website. And then I thought about Jackie Robinson and women ...

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

Two deeper histories on people mentioned in a recent column: a famous orator and a mother and son who survived the Holocaust.

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

Bernice King warns decades of work to reduce inequities in housing is at risk, as the Trump administration cuts funding for projects and tries to reduce funding for nonprofits that handle housing disc ...

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 ...

Jackie Robinson Day this year comes just a few weeks after the Trump administration tried to erase the baseball icon and ...

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

Sixty-four years ago today, a crowd of eager students piled into Thompson Chapel for regular Sunday Services. Curious ...