Lewis' legacy as a civil rights activist and lawmaker spans decades and numerous administrations. What to know as planned protests invoke his legacy.

Research into James Baldwin's archives reveals incisive details about the writer's personal relationships, both platonic and ...

Sammy T. Hughes played in the Negro Leagues from 1930 to 1946. He was a star who was buried without pomp or a headstone.

According to the publisher, the book also captures the Tibetan people's persistent efforts to safeguard their culture, ...

For much of his life, Paul Gauguin railed against the deadening effects of bourgeois domesticity. But as Sue Prideaux writes ...

The modern science biography must hold back no punches in its mission to represent the subject’s life, equally celebrating ...

The Making of Mike Tyson,” moves from the boxer’s birth in 1966 to 1988, what writer Mark Kriegel calls “the year of (Tyson’s ...

In his latest project, Ibram X. Kendi is on a mission to help the next generation know and understand the work of Malcolm X.

Dan Rivera was an American paranormal investigator, Army veteran and senior lead investigator of the New England Society for ...

A 43-year-old associate professor from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Przemysław Jeziorski, was fatally shot in an ...

Frank Stanford, who killed himself at age 29, died far too young. Thanks to writer James McWilliams, the legendary Arkansas poet's short but colorful life is now documented in a monumental biography.