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

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

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

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

Explore Dr. King's most radical, powerful quotes on justice, nonviolence, and truth-telling on the anniversary of his death.

Dr. King believed that true justice lifts up everyone, not just a select few. Alveda King noted that this was rooted in Acts 17:26, that her uncle aspired for “the day that there'll be no black power, ...

Bernice King remembers when her father moved their family in 1966 to a third-floor walk-up without heat in Chicago. Martin ...

Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther ... at a White House cabinet meeting, said the Robert F. Kennedy and King records were currently being scanned. "I've had over 100 people working ...

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated ... history when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. King would go on to enter the field of activism and fight ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis. Later today, there will be a special ceremony in his honor at the MLK National Historical Park in Atlanta.