Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Bangla poem “Bidrohi” (first published in January 1922), in Bijli magazine during British colonial rule, ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” address at 1963’s March on Washington is perhaps the most famous speech in ...

City officials push ahead with plans for a massive Black Voices Museum downtown, aiming to empower Black voices and preserve ...

Fifty years after her death in New York, Hannah Arendt has become the most popular philosopher of our time. For good reason: ...

The Lawrence Juneteenth organization is now accepting submissions to its contest for young writers. Winners will be featured ...

American history is filled with dramatic stories, legendary figures, and incredible events that have been repeated so often ...

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the legendary Emancipation Proclamation—one of the most significant documents in human history and a grand edict that paved the way to the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - An opportunity to get a closer look at one of the most important documents in the history of the United States. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will ...

A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism Down on the canal on Christmas Day Down on the canal on Christmas Day a man walks towards ...

America has always been a diverse nation, and Christmas is not the only holiday to be celebrated. Our diversity makes us ...

The Midtown Redevelopment Authority spent more than $150 million in housing funds during a 20-year push to slow displacement and build affordable housing in Third Ward. But the city agency built ...

In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named Aquila Giles set out to free Hannah, a 30-year-old woman he enslaved, and her daughter, Abigail, who was about 5.