"Culture wars are manufactured to spur misinformation," says the executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition.

Carter’s impulse to heal and seek peace was evident on his second day in office, when he pardoned all who had left the ...

Early last year, U.S. Reps. Joaquín Castro of Texas and Jimmy Gomez of California asked the CIA and the FBI to release their ...

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What stuck with me were the thousands trackside who came, not to see a spectacle, but to honor a man who transmitted caring.

Now, 61 years later, most would agree American families struggle much like they did in the 1960s. It is estimated the U.S. has spent over $30 trillion on poverty-related issues. Have Americans won ...

Here’s what to know about Martin Luther King Jr., why we celebrate his impact each year and when MLK Day is in 2025.

Among the thousands who fought for voting rights during the 1960s civil rights movement was Capitola resident Maria Gitin, ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill creating the Assateague Island National Seashore with its ink, thus saving a ...

Other Black civil rights activists were outraged. W. E. B. Du Bois said Garvey was the most dangerous enemy of the Negro race and was either "a lunatic or a traitor," according to PBS. Du Bois ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. When Johnson became Vice President in 1963, his staff "urged him to sell the station" to avoid potential ...

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines ... But it was civil rights, and not the rail dispute, that proved Johnson’s most ...