The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written 61 years ago this month, will be read aloud this week at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The reading will be ...

Sixty-two years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's pen touches paper in a Birmingham jail cell, I contemplate the walls that ...

In the solace of a Birmingham jail in April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. penned what many consider “one of the greatest documents ever written by an American.” King came across an article in the ...

The Peninsula Solidarity Cohort is sponsoring a Jan. 20 reading of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day — and acknowledging the presidential inauguration — with the ...

Writing for the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Idea blog, Dr. Eric L. Motley, a vice president at the institute, explains the power of “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” which he read for the first time with his ...

In April 1963, under police detention in Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King read an open letter, published in a local newspaper, from a number of southern white clergymen calling for an end to ...

A talented orator is not unlike a talented singer: In the right hands (or vocal cords), the words become more a spiritual experience than a mere communication tool. Martin Luther King, Jr. was that ...