A few months ago, another image of Mrs. King from the U.N. march was discovered on a contact sheet in The Times’s archive ...

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

The head of the division directed its staff to focus on enforcing edicts on transgender women in sports and other issues, ...

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

Are the stock market, post office and UPS open or closed on Good Friday? Good Friday is on April 18, 2025. The answer to the ...

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 ...

April 23 marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rally on Boston Common, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In what became the first major Civil Rights march in the Northeast, more than 20,000 gather ...

Hotel magnate Conrad Hilton fulfilled his dream to purchase the Waldorf-Astoria in 1949. He called the luxury hotel on Park ...

Latest record drop contains more than 10,000 pages related to investigations into the late senator’s assassination ...

Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton calls on Black America to boycott PepsiCo for abandoning DEI initiatives. He urges Black consumers to use their purchasing power as a tool for protest.