Rachel Corrie has been a lightning rod for controversy since her death in Gaza at the age of 23, when she was run over by an Israeli soldier while attempting to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian ...

A few pages into the script of My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a play drawn from the writings of the young American activist crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003, the titular character meditates ...

“If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn’t be a distant symbol to me, it wouldn’t be a metaphor, it would be a reality.” Rachel Corrie wrote these words just ...

AMMAN, Jordan — Twenty-one years ago this month, Rachel Corrie, a young American activist, was protesting the Israeli demolition of homes in the Gaza Strip. Bulldozers had already destroyed the ...

In other Mideast news, the parents of the slain American peace activist Rachel Corrie were on hand Tuesday for events marking the seventh anniversary of her killing. Corrie was crushed to death by an ...

Look beyond the politics espoused in the fact-based one-woman drama My Name Is Rachel Corrie, currently onstage at Second Thought Theatre at Bryant Hall. They’re dicey and have drawn controversy since ...

This story was updated to add a photo gallery. Less than half of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie" is devoted to the weeks Corrie spent in Gaza prior to her death in 2003. But the portrait of the younger ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — On a Portland blog, which describes itself as an “anarchist" platform, a group is calling themselves the Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade and is taking responsibility for torching ...

As friends and family mourn the killing of Turkish American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, we speak with the parents of Rachel Corrie, another American killed ...

The most provocative play on Milwaukee's fall theater schedule is being staged by one of the city's newest theater companies. Vanguard Productions is performing "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," a one-actor ...

Coming almost a decade after her death beneath the tracks of an armored Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip, the verdict in the Rachel Corrie case was the furthest thing from a surprise. By the time ...