This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

1958: The last remaining Chicago streetcar made its final run. The last paying trolley customer was Al Carter. Carter was also the last customer at the 1933-34 Century of Progress, which was the ...

There are so many precious things under attack in this American moment. Our human rights, civil liberties and basic dignity ...

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is seen with the Washington Monument, during the 9th Annual Wreath Laying and Day of Reflection and Reconciliation, in Washington, Monday, Jan.20, 2020.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

TAMPA BAY, Fla. — Every year on January 16, the nation celebrates the life, legacy and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Although the holiday is observed every third Monday of January, Dr ...

Joe Biden made an appearance on Juneteenth in Texas at Galveston's Reedy Chapel, calling for the country to unify in ...

Gun violence is highest in Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, where organizers say tackling poverty is the only way to create ...

An Illinois village has voted to purchase the childhood home of the first American pope, with a trustee saying the ...

Jack Corn worked for The Tennessean for more than 20 years, telling the stories of Nashville through photojournalism. He died ...

This Independence Day, the U.S. begins its countdown to the quarter millennium.