Sixty-one years ago today, long before the infamous TV moments of OJ Simpson and Casey Anthony, one man's murder conviction became the first-ever courtroom verdict to be televised.

Protest songs have been part of American history for centuries — from “Yankee Doodle” during the Revolutionary War period to “Okie from Muskogee” by Merle Haggard to Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” — and ...

H.E.R. directs a documentary full of all-star conversations framed around archival footage of an artist who remains an ...

Colin Vedros was outside of the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center following the story of the Columbia University ...

A Palestinian human rights advocate, Mahmoud Khalil, has been kidnapped from his Columbia University residence and illegally detained by ICE/DHS agents, first in New Jersey, and now in a private ...

The folk icon also dance to Cypress Hill's "Hits From the Bong" on Wednesday's (March 12) season premiere of the comedian's ...

Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

My schedule has been erratic this winter while I deal with some of that real-world stuff, which I’ll have some more to say about it in a near-future newsletter or column. Meanwhile, the fight for a ...

Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and his greying head bowed in prayer.

The Rev. Marcus D. Cosby of the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston is encouraging his congregation to take part in a ...