Actor and director David Oyelowo shared his thoughts about playing Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 historical drama Selma.

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 ...

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

The honor recognizes his decades of work supporting justice-impacted youth, African American families, and his leadership as ...

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

The Evanston/Skokie District 65 school board voted to cut 48 teachers and staff, including administrative staff, school ...

For proud, native Detroiter Norm Taylor, coaching high school baseball is a "challenge" he embraces, while honoring his ...

Two deeper histories on people mentioned in a recent column: a famous orator and a mother and son who survived the Holocaust.

Kansas City Public Schools prepare to break ground on what it’s calling a “transformative” project. Crews plan to break ...

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 ...