Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...

"We felt that most African Americans are Democrats, and Democrats would be more susceptible to dealing with a situation that affects the African American ... for Civil Rights leader Marcus Garvey.

The rebel chief who led the overthrow of the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad has been declared the head of government for a ...

A strong oral tradition ties Lafayette’s visit to the Blue Ball Inn, on the Old York Road south of Shrewsbury. That tale of ...

Workers at Firestone's rubber farm in Liberia say that extracting natural rubber comes with a high human cost.

The justices said Friday they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state board's approval of an ...

Trump says he’ll send the ‘worst’ criminal migrants to Guantanamo. Guantanamo Bay detention center was used to house those ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement ... later resulted in the upending of politics in the American Midwest. The PBS documentary “The First Rainbow ...