On March 7, 1965, young civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of peaceful marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Doris Crenshaw was 12 years old on Dec. 5, 1955, when she and her sister eagerly rushed door to door ...

Sorkin rejects the idea, still bandied about in high school classes today, that Hoover caused the Great Depression. He argues ...

Mobile is “in prime position to become the state’s leader in cultural tourism.” Now if that doesn’t get your attention, ...

Over there, we were all Somebody, no matter what they thought on the other side — as the fiery young civil rights leader extolled us. We were, as Rev. Jesse Jackson proclaimed in the early 1960s, ...

Dorris Crenshaw points to a photo of the Edmund Pettus Bridge as she prepares for the 70th anniversary of Rosa Park's Bus ...

Cory Booker on What It Takes to Believe in America Again transcript A friend of mine said that they hung a flag, or maybe it ...

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

Let us give thanks for the unpaid caregivers and recognize the scale of their tasks, the cost they bear and the policy fixes ...

Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a tragedy on Lake Superior that claimed the lives of 29 men. In the days following the calamity, songwriter Gordon ...

Captain Ernest McSorley and his crew were fighting for their lives in a battle against the "Witch of November" when his final words went out over the radio. “We are holding our own." Less than 15 ...