The checks-and-balances of our government have been increasingly tested in ways our founding fathers never anticipated, yet ...

In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.

Here's how North Carolina members of Congress voted over the previous week.

While the Voting Rights Act was undoubtedly a singular achievement, it represented the culmination of a long struggle.

The "Star Wars" icon and three-time Stephen King actor recalls the phone call that convinced him to do the movie.

On Wednesday, Sept. 17, we will observe Constitution Day in Orsini Park from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.; if it rains, the event will be held on Sept. 20. Instead of speeches, the celebration will offer ...

Before Thurgood Marshall joined the Supreme Court, he secured many of the rights his successors are dismantling ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state ...

Not born to be liked but to write” Arundhathi Roy She writes autobiographically on her life with her mother and brother and titles her book Mother Mary Comes To Me, mother Mary being her own mother – ...

African Americans are incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites, and the imprisonment rate for African American women is twice that of white women. Nationwide, African American children ...

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has relaunched its global news feature series on the history, ...

A free speech group wrote in a letter to Florida school districts that they can't enforce a state law used to remove book ...