John Lewis, of Lucas, Iowa, would have fought for the board. Lewis was born in 1880 as the son of Thomas Lewis, an immigrant ...

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing), the first Black woman elected to Congress from New Jersey and a leading light for New ...

Beau Breslin I come from a long line of racists. Tracing my ancestry back to the early 19th century, I discovered that my great-great-great-grandfather emigrated from Ireland and then drifted south, ...

Manipulation of electoral maps, suppression of minority votes, and lies about the fairness of the process: one year before ...

'Project 2025 is Jim Crow 2.0.' Legendary South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn, the state’s only Democratic lawmaker, is speaking out on the state of politics under the Trump administration, ...

For 50 years, a family kept a secret about events leading up to a cataclysmic moment in Australian politics. Now they are ...

He was furious, but somehow it put steel into my heart.” ...

When I was twelve years old, I had never heard of Thomas Sowell. I doubt any of the kids in my neighborhood had. For the vast majority of American students in K-12 education, opportunities to learn ...

Dick Cheney’s long career was replete with paradox. He was one of the most powerful vice presidents in American history.

Three cheers for historian Marvin Dunn, Miami's modern "Horatius at the Bridge." Dunn is the sole resident who challenged in the courts Miami Dade College's shuffle-shifting of a 2.6-acre parcel of ...