In his new biography, David Greenberg tells the full story of the civil rights hero who became a long-serving U.S. representative.

We fell under the leadership of those who would compromise with truth in the past in order to make peace in the present and guide policy in the future.

Colorado voters approved a ballot measure to provide free meals for all public school students.

This year’s commencement speaker for UMass undergraduate commencement has backed out just a little over a week before the event.

As prince, Charles used tax breaks, offshore accounts and canny real estate investments to turn a sleepy estate into a billion-dollar business.

The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017, was melted down in secret and will become a new piece of public art.

The actress and screenwriter takes on a musical.

The ashes of Ms. Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura on “Star Trek,” will be on a Vulcan rocket to be launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., later this year.

President Biden is offering what independent analysts suggest would be his most targeted assistance yet to middle-class workers — while trying to repair what he casts as a broken bridge to the middle...

A 16-year-old Guatemalan immigrant worker is dead after a machinery-related accident at the Mar-Jac poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Miss.

COURTESY OF FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX   Robert Gottlieb is a man of eclectic tastes, and it is difficult to make generalizations about the authors he has worked with or the hundreds of books he has...

The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Democrats should not have adopted “Republican narratives on crime and safety,” and need to abandon “pure moderate” approaches.

By renaming military bases, the Defense Department dismantles an enduring legacy of the Lost Cause.

An analysis of two million births in California, the first research of its size to include both race and income, shows the best medical care for mothers and babies is not equally accessible to...

The host of Netflix’s “High on the Hog” draws seductive stories from a bittersweet legacy.

Sleep advice centered on individual behaviors like reducing screen time ignores structural issues like poverty, stress, and noise pollution.

Descriptions of civic life and some key historical events differ from the way they are taught in typical public school textbooks.

Donald Trump, who is running for office again, said he’d never met her before, that she was lying and that she was mentally unstable during a May 10 CNN town hall.

Nathan Connolly and his wife, Shani Mott, say an appraisal company undervalued their home based on their race. The couple has filed a lawsuit in Maryland.

A hallmark of structural racism is that it’s pervasive. Health care is no exception.

Historians say up to 300 Black people were killed in the 1921 attack and the days that followed. Nearly all are believed to have been buried in mass graves approved by white authorities of the time.

It’s no longer legal for life insurance companies to calculate rates using race. That hasn’t ended a "two-tiered" system.

Richard Drax reported to have visited Caribbean island for meeting on next steps, including plans for former sugar plantation

Duke outside hitter Rachel Richardson said the slurs and comments “grew into threats which caused us to feel unsafe.” Rachel’s father said she called him as soon as she was on the bus after Duke’s...

The Washington Post joined many newspapers that will drop the long-running 'Dilbert' comic strip after its creator called Black Americans a 'hate group.'

Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures.

A trove of images from the 1960s and ’70s, discovered in a Swedish bank vault, offers new perspectives on the past—and the present.

By renaming military bases, the Defense Department dismantles an enduring legacy of the Lost Cause.

The Times found that each of the six officers we tracked immediately used physical force, escalating even as Nichols became increasingly incapacitated and incoherent.

The legal scholar has been writing about the criminalization of pregnancy for 25 years. Now she’s calling to abolish the child welfare system.

Adult beds are more lucrative than children’s beds. So as institutions look to boost profit margins, pediatrics is often among the first services to be cut.

Standards mean little to white evangelicals who crave political power.

This column by Eugene Patterson, then editor of the Atlanta Constitution, was originally published in that paper on September 16, 1963 and was read aloud that night on the "CBS Evening News" with...

“It shows that cinema is not just for the West,” a father in Senegal said of the highly anticipated sequel.

Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

In a first for the US, two Virginia schools will have their original Confederate names reinstated.

Stephanie Wright discovered that her name was omitted from a history book. She fought to get it put back.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted to uphold a racist Jim Crow felony voter disenfranchisement law.