In April 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a march from Carter Playground on the edge of Roxbury to Boston Common. It was ...

Discover the deep history and connection between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Penn Center, a former school for ...

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 ...

Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947. He stepped into the batter’s box at Ebbets Field in the Flatbush ...

Trying to force your will to break the spirit of working people in order to have a conversation — that’s terrorism. And we’re ...

David Oyelowo's new Apple TV+ dramedy Government Cheese is a surrealist, striking leap of faith that sticks the landing. Read ...

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 ...

Jackie Robinson did more than break Major League Baseball’s color barrier. The Hall of Famer was also a journalist, bank owner, civil rights activist, army veteran, and political advisor.

In 2023, the City of Springfield received a grant for various improvements at Garner Street Park, like renovating restrooms and the pavilion to be ADA-compliant and a replacement of the playground.

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