Fifty years have now passed since Ashe stunned Connors in four sets to become the first – and to this day only – Black man to ...

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

During the Civil Rights Movement, restaurants were vital for protesters and organizers to gather. Here are some of the most ...

Today in History for July 17: In 1505, future church reformer, Martin Luther entered the Augustinian monastic order at Erfurt in present day eastern Germany. He was 21. In 1674, the second census of ...

A man is dead and an 8-year-old boy is safe after SWAT officers responded to reports of gunfire in a southwest Atlanta home.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries breaks the record for longest speech delivered on the House floor with nearly nine hours of remarks about how the Republican tax bill would hurt Americans.

More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still sees the same ...

A federal judge in New York this week blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end Haitians’ temporary protected status ...

Dolton residents were skeptical at Tuesday's board meeting, questioning whether the financially strained village could afford ...

Yolanda Renée King is the sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King—and is just as passionate. She ...

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

Actor and Miss Universe finalist Maureen Hingert has died. She was 88. The “King and I” star passed away Sunday of liver ...