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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 ...
Annapolis officials and civil rights leaders are expected to unveil a memorial to Parren J. Mitchell, Maryland’s first ...
A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...
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 ...
On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...
Sixty-four years ago today, a crowd of eager students piled into Thompson Chapel for regular Sunday Services. Curious ...
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 ...
Jackie Robinson Day this year comes just a few weeks after the Trump administration tried to erase the baseball icon and American hero.
I met him in Miami Beach as my friends saw the Beach Boys.
Two deeper histories on people mentioned in a recent column: a famous orator and a mother and son who survived the Holocaust.