From the lunch counter to the ballot box to Selma marches to the Black Panthers, the Civil Rights Movement (roughly 1954–1968) birthed icons and pioneers who helped change the l ...

Congress has until midnight on Sept. 30 to strike a compromise and avoid a shutdown. Neither side seems to be budging.

It was a bleary-eyed bunch who shuffled their way down the aisle and sat in the front row of a Catholic Church in Auckland that Sunday morning in September 1986.