The holidays are a time for togetherness, when we’re supposed to gather with family, get along and nurture the ties that bind ...

In February 1957, the Alabama Court of Appeals upheld her 1955 bus arrest conviction for violating segregation rules that ...

A look at the life, legacy, and death of civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael and the turbulent path of his successor H. Rap Brown, whose contrasting fates reflect the evolving struggle for Black ...

Families are turning to the ballot not to punish law enforcement, but because oversight is the only tool left that treats ...

Carla Kaplan’s biography “Troublemaker” focuses on the fierce political commitments of the journalist best known for “The ...

One of the many things that Rev. Scriven is still teaching me, though he died on Christmas Day in 2023, is to learn from ...

On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States declared same-sex marriage legal, ending a decades-long battle ...

A forensic expert links Charlie Kirk's assassination to patterns seen in historic political killings as the FBI investigates ...

Across 34 years at The Washington Post, he reported on the King assassination, covered antiwar protests in D.C. and prepared ...