John Brown is determined to build an army, and when he tells Frederick Douglass, he makes it clear—abolishing slavery will ...

son of abolitionist John Brown, for more than a century a place of pilgrimage for abolitionists and a monument to the Civil War, appears to have been spared by the Eaton Fire. AJ Lester of the Los ...

Music clearly played a starring role in the civil rights ... off references to James Brown, Malcolm X and their own first ...

Music clearly played a starring role in the civil ... Brown, Malcolm X and their own first album. And before the song is through, he's trashed two paragons of white pop culture, Elvis Presley and ...

Feb. events include the 30th annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry reading, and a free PPAC program celebrating musician and activist Randall Ashe.

President Donald Trump's executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally has faced the first of what will be many legal tests.

Happy 187th birthday, Michigan! You look great. Honestly, you don’t look a day over 125. What’s your secret? Pilates? Whatever it is, keep it up. It’s working.

Newmark's book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons ... The cover of Jill Newmark's book shows John H. Rapier Jr., Abbott, William P.

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

A federal judge in Seattle blocked, temporarily, President Donald Trump’s attempt to rescind birthright citizenship — the ...

The judge, an appointee of Republican former President Ronald Reagan, dealt the first legal setback to the hardline policies ...