Seven decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into American history for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, ...

Syrian transitional authorities have taken positive steps on justice, transparency and rights but failed to prevent continued ...

Ken Burn's "American Revolution" documentary shows that war had profound implications for humanity, notion of equality of all ...

Now a simmering civil war within Heritage — and the conservative movement itself — has spilled out into public view. One faction, led by Jewish conservatives and Christian Zionists like Senator Ted ...

Where Does the Transgender Rights Movement Go From Here? transcript I will say, just for myself, and I am very hesitant to announce things as transphobic without having an opportunity to try to have ...

During the recent government shutdown, some Republicans in Congress have expressed sympathy for the roughly seven hundred and thirty thousand federal employees who have been performing essential ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...

Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. It seems an ...