Resisting the rain and the heat, 3,000 people lived in Resurrection City, on the Washington Mall, for weeks, to demand an end to poverty. This is episode 51 of Stories of Resistance.

Johnson signed an executive order strengthening the provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that banned racial ...

So now we live in a time when Americans in power ignore the Constitution and curtail freedom of speech, freedom of assembly ...

Gandhi’s bedchamber is a frugal loft overlooking the dining room, but mine is a doorway to heaven. While he climbed a ladder ...

Then again, he wouldn’t be the first person to get a Nobel Peace Prize they didn’t deserve. Obama won one simply for not being George W. Bush. The 1991 Burmese Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, later ...

Deep snow, frigid temperatures, MLK Day celebrations, the Iowa caucuses. The days leading up to and after the fatal shootings ...

David Howell Evans, known as The Edge, was born in England but lived in Ireland since the age of one. U2 veteran The Edge has ...

She walked through the Herald’s doors in 1966 with fear, faith and no byline. Today, at 87, she’s still writing—and still walking through the door | Opinion ...

Being from Watts, California — a flash point of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement — Empress Akua knew from childhood the ...

The first Black woman elected to the US Senate and former US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa has some stories to tell.

The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before ...

On Thursday, the Texas African American Museum (TAAM) marked Juneteenth with music, food, and engaging activities to ...