A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

Republicans are again trying to shield police officers involved in fatal shootings from John Doe hearings, calling the ...

All these moves are supposedly justified by the idea that the federal government does not play a legitimate role in education ...

The American experiment depends on institutional checks on power’s exercise. If there are no checks, then these indeed will ...

Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, hosts a Black History Month celebration in February with ...

King, one of the United States’ most prominent figures in reference to the civil rights movement ... 61 years in New York City and attended James Madison high school with Bernie Sanders ...

Jim Guy Tucker, Arkansas’ 43rd governor, died Thursday at the age of 81. Tucker died from complications of ulcerative colitis ...

Never let them tell you that nothing ever changes in politics. In 1996, just 27 percent of American adults believed that the ...

Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin ... aimed at damaging the civil rights leader — particularly evidence of extramarital affairs. Kathryn McGarr, a professor of history at the University of ...

A priest, a women's leader and three physicians made efforts to improve conditions for North Omaha and its Black community in the years before the Civil Rights Act.

"The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies" takes an in-depth look at the position of first lady. While many books exist to tell the story of individuals, the new work examines the job from ...