S ixty-two years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's pen touches paper in a Birmingham jail cell, I contemplate the walls that still divide us. Walls constructed in concrete to enclose Alabama ...

The future of the St. Johns County jail, where civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was held in 1964, is uncertain after an application to demolish the historic building was filed. The ...

Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail “We stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.” — Martin Luther King, Jr., Prayer meeting, 1956 “I have a ...

Martin Luther King ... dull monotony of a narrow jail cell other than write long letters, think strange thoughts, and pray long prayers?” The FBI tried to coerce King into suicide.

The first time the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rocked me was when I was a 16-year-old sleeping on the top bunk of a prison cell in the Southampton ... from Birmingham Jail and some Toni ...

Martin Luther ... Jail." 18. The original recipients of this Birmingham jail letter were eight white Alabama clergymen who had "A Call for Unity," a statement made against Dr. King and his methods ...

In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day ... In his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail, King eloquently spelled out his theory of nonviolence ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination ... time locked up in a jail cell. While he was a marginal ...