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 ...

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

Donald Trump recently commandeered California’s National Guard to repress anti-ICE protests in LA. The National Guard has a ...

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

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there. It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside ...