It doesn’t require follow-up. A manifesto is time stamped “today.” Its expiration date is “tomorrow.” Four months later at the Lincoln Memorial, King would proclaim “the fierce urgency of now.” The ...

That sentiment from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is as pertinent today as it was when he penned it 61 years ago. While many advances toward racial equity ...

King George VI enclosed with the letter to Lionel Logue a silver-gilt cigarette case as a gift A previously undiscovered letter written by King George VI to his speech therapist has sold for £ ...

In response, King wrote a letter from Birmingham City Jail, noting, “I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’ ” It stands today as ...

were applied to U.S. postage stamps between 1867 and 1872, with each design given a different corresponding letter. “In the case of Z grills, they look different because they were made from one ...