When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...
“Picturing the Border” collects photographs of the United States-Mexico boundary dating back to the 1960s.
President Donald Trump has stopped a refugee resettlement program that has brought thousands of people fleeing war and ...
We know that U.S. vice presidents are often the objects of humorous jabs for their secondary role in the executive branch or ...
Cases aren’t being solved more efficiently, but are simply being thrown out at the expense of “the little guy.” Unfortunately ...
Opinion editor Juan Esparza Loera embraces MLK Jr.’s concept of unity and hope over president’s threats of massive ...
Draft lyrics to Bob Dylan's song went for over a half-million dollars as part of a weekend sale of dozens of items related to ...
His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...
The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the ...
The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of ...
1973 is largely agreed to be a transformative year for the United States. 1960s exceptionalism saw its swansong that year, right before the oil crisis brought it crashing down. Elsewhere ...