Booker spoke for more than 25 hours against authoritarianism and in support of Americans feeling the stress of the Trump ...

The leader of the Smithsonian may be one of the few leaders fearless enough to navigate Donald Trump’s attacks on the arts.

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he started it more than 25 hours earlier: by ...

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker's fiery filibuster may be the moment exhausted Democrats have needed to galvanize opposition to the Trump agenda.

Members of the Chessmen Club of the North Shore welcomed more than 400 people to their 67th Annual Community Service Awards ...

These assaults on higher education are nothing new. They are part of a historical pattern: when education threatens ...

The Jackson Home, originally in Selma, Alabama was a crucial place in the fight for true freedom for African-Americans.  It's ...

March 25, 1965, marked a turning point in history. America's civil rights leaders completed their 54-mile march from Selma, ...

In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, 60 years ago this month, evoked memories of his former Mexican American ...

The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...