Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?

A recent letter to the editor maligns the patriotism of the Cumberland Historic Cemetery Organization by questioning one of several historical flags flown at the organization’s headquarters in an infe ...

Isabel Wilkerson began the University of Colorado Boulder’s Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation on Thursday by noting that the ...

Washington mourned Jimmy Carter last week at the National Cathedral, which has been a guide for activism in the Trump era ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants Harriet Tubman to be one of New York's representatives in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.

Learning new things is important if we want to live a long and fulfilling life. Acquiring new skills and performing ...

Jamie Foxx has played musical icons, sports stars, and Marvel supervillains. In "Back in Action," he plays a CIA agent. Here ...

On a sidewalk near the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, I met Jaqueline Smith, a long-term resident of the motel until she was forcibly evicted in 1988. For 36 years, ...

In “I Am Nobody’s Slave,” memoirist Lee Hawkins reaches deep into his family history and finds redemption in understanding ...

The framers of the U.S. Constitution designed a unique system to choose our president in 1787: the Electoral College. More ...

Photo by Robert Cohen, [email protected]. The Missouri Botanical Garden will soon be addressing issues of slavery on its grounds, thanks to a grant from the National Parks Service.

Two U.S. states still honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday set aside for Civil Rights leader Martin ...