Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...

I Want Freedom Now!' about Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks.

Black History figures everyone should know about For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White ...

An Omaha woman was booked into Lancaster County jail Wednesday after being accused of passing contraband to a Lincoln prison ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they’d struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship both detained migrants and ...

School 6 has the highest absenteeism rate among K-8 schools in Paterson. It serves a neighborhood with high poverty, a food ...

True leadership means stepping up to protect democracy, the rule of law and our values, despite facing personal risks ...

The meeting spot for homeless people and local nonprofits is now regularly patrolled by park rangers, who warned 78-year-old ...

Hundreds of people have gathered at Bristol Cathedral to remember one of the UK's leading civil rights campaigners. The ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for ...

The great Russian literary genius Alexander Pushkin dies on this day as a result of a duel. He is generally considered Russia’s great­est poet. Unlike many famous Euro­peans of color, Pushkin was ...

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. expressed their emotional response to President Trump’s decision to declassify records ...