The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from ...

As Election Day approaches, columnist Mike Daly reflects on the Civil Rights Movement that was grounded in securing voting ...

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young settled into the role of doing the “dirty work” right away when he began working for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement — answering mail, ...

The 20th century was about the people who dared to think differently and act boldly. From mind-bending discoveries to ...

The story of Rosa Parks has long been misrepresented and sanitized. Now it's also under threat of erasure. We correct the ...

Young ran for Congress, winning in 1972 before being appointed as ambassador to the United Nations by President Jimmy Carter.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller, pivotal figures who fought for justice and inspired change ...

—Thorsheims Celebrate Anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Thorsheim celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary at the Montmartre Saturday with 50 guests in attendance. Bryant Thorsheim is well-known as a ...

President Donald Trump is clearly unpopular: Most Americans disapprove of his performance and millions recently turned out ...

A good ghost story is really a history lesson, and one Milwaukee historian is digging past the shadows to unearth the ...

Eight years after Parks’ death, on February 27, 2013, a statue of Parks was installed inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Rev. Jesse L. Douglas, a close aide to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., passed away in 2021 at age 90. His daughter, Adrienne Douglas Vaulx, said he died in a nursing home in Charlotte, North Carolina ...