When Henry Louis Gates Jr. set out to trace the family tree of America's first pope, he had no idea he was about to uncover ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture honored B Michael and his husband Mark-Anthony ...

Amir Hassan, a Navy veteran and former federal law enforcement officer, has moved home to Michigan to run for the U.S. House ...

The version of wellness we're sold is often curated, aesthetic, and frequently out of reach. But all that's about to change.

Forgotten openly gay activist spearheaded the historic 1963 March on Washington, which had an estimated 250,000 attendees.

The truth is that Latinos have always been in the U.S., we’ve just been largely invisible – often given few racially ...

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Lawyers, law students and other fans of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson erupted in cheers and a standing ovation — eagerly snapping far-off, hazy cell phone photographs during the ...

Social justice advocates are creating a LGBTQ+ history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil ...

Young people will never experience this in their lives again. I’m sure of it. In practice, it will be like a World Youth Day.

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Edith Renfrow Smith, who turned 111 Monday, is still reading, still voting, still baking, still an advocate of living every ...