California Rep. Lateefah Simon made sure her voice was heard loud and clear at a congressional hearing that appeared to have ...

Plattsburgh residents Don and Vivian Papson work to go the distance for freedom. In recognition of their contributions, they were the recipients of the Colors of Freedom Community Award presented by ...

One photo in particular, taken by the legendary Gordon Parks at the opening of queer playwright Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin ...

On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered in the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. ... program at the Lincoln Memorial featured an impressive roster of ...

Juneteenth marks the jubilant day in 1865 when many of the more than 250,000 people who were enslaved in Texas finally learned they were legally free. This deliberately delayed news was delivered by ...

Efforts to pursue common ground with MAGA members aim to muzzle advocates for our most vulnerable. Yet history is filled with ...

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...

A century before Beyoncé, Josephine Baker became America’s first global pop star. She broke barriers, built a brand, and ...

Every voting member on the New Hanover County Schools curriculum committee recommended reinstating a banned book’s ...

But patriotism’s home base clearly is the United States. Fully half of Americans think their country is the best on Earth, ...

Ludlow, Colorado, 1914: eleven thousand mine workers had been on strike for seven months against John D. Rockefeller’s ...

Over the course of her first semester at Spelman College, Georgianne Thomas went from sheltered freshman to foot soldier on ...