Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

Costa blew his own cover Wednesday by being one of 10 Democrats who joined the House’s slim Republican majority in voting to ...

The National Archives recently published a new webpage featuring the declassified records on former President John F. Kennedy ...

Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago's Polish Museum of America honored the "Father of American Cavalry," 280 years after his ...

The Trump administration published a list of more than 440 federal properties it identified to close or sell, including the ...

We cannot and must not retreat to “fortress America” and with the illusion that we are safe between two oceans, nor can we ...

Connecticut senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal opposed the nomination of Linda McMahon, the WWE co-founder who ...

Ibram X. Kendi, the antiracist scholar, talks to CNN about his upcoming new book on Malcolm X, the recent “racist progress” ...

The House Oversight Committee is planning its first hearing on the release of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and a possible visit to Dallas.

There is a bipartisan push to posthumously award boxing legend Muhammad Ali with Congressional Gold Medal, recognizing his ...

I think everybody has to start looking at language,” says the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. “It doesn’t mean you have to ...

Six weeks of demonstrations failed to stop the toxic dump, but the publicity sparked a movement that’s now known as ...