-- In the solace of a Birmingham jail in April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came across an article in the afternoon edition of The Birmingham News that proved energizing. The story, headlined ...

Fifty years ago this month, Martin Luther King Jr. drafted a letter from a cramped cell in Birmingham, Alabama. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Jonathan Rieder says in his new book Gospel of ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. sat in a cell off 6th Avenue S. where he scribbled in the margins of The Birmingham News his first thoughts after reading an open ...

He was unshaven, dirty and dejected. King had spent several days alone in solitary confinement with no mattress in a filthy dark jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama. “Take this out of here,” King ...

One of the most historic pieces to ever appear in the pages of The Atlantic is MLK's "Letter From Birmingham Jail," published in our August 1963 issue. Dr. King had released it a few months earlier, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An attorney for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who helped smuggle out snippets of King's writing that became the "Letter from ...

CLARENCE B. JONES: I happen to think that you can book end Martin’s life in this country by the letter from the Birmingham jail, his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington, and his April 4 ...

(RNS) — It’s been more than half a century since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on scraps of paper, but faith leaders say his response to white clergy ...

A man stands before the monument of Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, D.C. Joe Raedle Getty Images On April 12, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and jailed for leading a well-panned and ...

(RNS) Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. challenged white church leaders to confront racism, an ecumenical network has responded to his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Christian Churches ...