Civil rights activists and clergy launch a movement in solidarity with a national boycott of Target, focusing on economic ...

Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common lead by King drawing attention to the racial ...

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 ...

The First Amendment rights of students at Department of Defense schools are being violated by removal of library books about ...

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

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 ...

MLK's voice continues to ring out against injustice, despite attempts to erase Black history. His legacy remains urgent and needed today.

On April 4, 1968, the United States lost one of its most influential civil rights leaders when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His death marked a tragic moment in ...

In 2016, Battle “established April as International Black Women’s History Month…in the city of Atlanta to uplift and support the achievements of Black and minority women, and to build ...

3.) Oct. 28, 1929 (-38.33, -12.82%) The first Black Monday in the history of the Dow Jones, investors' fortunes were wiped out in a major wake-up call for people who thought the the good times ...