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

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

While you will be able to get into the parks without paying an entrance fee, NPS notes you may still need to pay a timed ...

After Sunday, there are four other free entrance days with NPS: June 19, for Juneteenth National Independence Day; August 4, ...

Director of National Intelligence Tusli Gabbard has been working with over 100 people to scan and release government ...

National intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard says documents related to the 1968 assassinations of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F ...

Bernice King warns decades of work to reduce inequities in housing is at risk, as the Trump administration cuts funding for ...

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

We will cross Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma this weekend, as we commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Friday marks 57 years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April ...

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is commemorating the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. This year's theme, "How Long, Not Long," is taken from King's famous speech ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Marquette University political science professor Julia Azari talked about how Jimmy Carter's arrival to the presidency served as a 'reset' after ...