Memorial Day weekend begins with remembering those who gave their lives for our freedom. We can easily develop a sense of ...

After the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, towns and cities nationwide commissioned artists to paint BLM street murals in solidarity. Many remain.

Adolphus Hailstork's 2022 requiem cantata "A Knee on the Neck" pays tribute to George Floyd. NPR speaks with librettist Herbert Martin, who initiated the work, five years after police killed Floyd in ...

One of John F. Kennedy’s favorite books was Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod, published in 1865. When in Washington, D.C., Kennedy, a yachtsman, always craved the Cape Cod winds and turbulent Atlantic ...

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As the clock ticked past midnight on the evening of July 23, 2022, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay found himself in a nail ...

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After an uncomfortable Oval Office encounter with Donald Trump, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa becomes the latest world leader hoping to mend relations only to discover the U.S.

A 90-year-old former Secret Service agent is set to testify about the incompetence and conspiracy to kill JFK before Dallas ...

Fothergill, then 19, along with hundreds of other students, some Black and some white, took part in the peaceful walkout as ...

Historian Peniel Joseph’s “Freedom Season” raises up the work of Black activists seeking a more just society in the pivotal ...

WASHINGTON – The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets will ...