Jack Corn worked for The Tennessean for more than 20 years, telling the stories of Nashville through photojournalism. He died ...

The artist — whose activism in the Civil Rights movement began with his childhood in the South and continued in Oregon, where ...

He was in intrepid journalist in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East before becoming a mainstay news presenter on British TV.

Officials in Dolton, Ill., called the purchase a rare opportunity. But some residents questioned whether the village, ...

He notched a victory in a Supreme Court decision against the City of Chicago in 1976. He then spent over 40 years making sure ...

Labor and civil rights leader A. Phillip Randolph initially rejects a plea by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to call off the ...

On June 19, across the United States, Juneteenth was once again celebrated mdash;not merely as a federal holiday, but as a living, breathing reminder of freedom delayed and dignity reclaimed .

For all of our challenges, to be born American is to win the lottery of life. On July 4, we should keep this top of mind and ...

Her unflinching gaze, which garnered both criticism and praise, confronted some of the most momentous and often painful chapters in global human history.

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

"It is not all right to take us out of the history books, or take Black history out of the school libraries," writes the Rev.

Founder of the FedEx Corporation Fred Smith has died Saturday at 80. Smith was born in 1944 in Marks, Mississippi before ...