"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 ...

Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming holiday, why we celebrate it and why it's more than just a long-weekend ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alongside his work in and beyond the White House, Carter traveled to Austin several times over the years in support of the Lyndon B. Johnson ... to speak at its Civil Rights Summit in Austin ...

In addition to presenting a challenge to the incoming Trump administration, which has preferred the debt ceiling issue be resolved by Inauguration Day, it is especially thorny for Johnson due to ...