While the story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is well known by all Americans, the decades preceding it remain a mystery to many. And while Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, …

Join us as we reflect on the history and future of Black bibliography through panel discussions, exhibition tour, an open house, and more.

Pregnant women are being detailed at a record rate—but how many lose their pregnancies isn’t being tracked.

Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go.

Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.

B.C. Hydro says it's monitoring for the reappearance of a mysterious island first spotted by boaters 100 kilometres from the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in northeastern B.C.

She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

The federal judge, who cited Dolly Parton in his ruling, found that the state law violated the First Amendment.

PBS documentary on 9to5 shows how women’s organizing efforts in 1970s to better working conditions echos many of today’s social justice movements

Though I have been mostly offline for my annual summer social media sabbatical, I watched the Jason Arday story unfold with increasing horror over the last couple of weeks. With hundreds of stories…

The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...

The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, as well as its publisher and a reporter.

Federal prosecutors accused TikTok of collecting and keeping data from children without notifying parents or receiving consent.

“I could write a second memoir solely on the racism I experienced at Cambridge University as a Master’s and PhD student,” writes Jill Damatac, a Filipino-American author who was a student at Cambridge...

The new head of the Justice Department said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the president had never asked him to prosecute specific people — and never would.

After their mom and dad were deported, two Fort Worth teens went nearly a year before seeing their parents.

Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal immigration office Sunday morning to show support for Haitian immigrants from Springfield who were called to report for immigration check-ins.

Book — Non-fiction. By Dave Zirin. 2026. 400 pages. A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the t...

When dozens of brutal race riots erupted across the U.S. in the wake of World War I and the Great Migration, black ve...

The new bill would broaden the authority of Ohio's controversial civics centers despite low enrollment so far.

Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.

In 1951, gospel star Rosetta Tharpe got married in front of thousands of fans at a baseball stadium. In some ways, says biographer Gayle Wald, it set the template for today's stadium rock concerts.

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We are honored to have with us tonight Dr. Ashley D. Farmer joining us from Austin, Texas, where she teaches in the department of history and African and African Diaspora Studies at the Univ…

On the morning of June 16th 2026 fifteen anti-ICE organizers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Minnesota, 12 of whom were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities. This fundrai...

South Siders voice concerns about gentrification, housing and affordability as they celebrate opening of the Obama Presidential Center

Narratives collected by the federal Works Progress Administration, like the one recounted here, are an invaluable tool for retelling American history.