On May 23, 1968, Henry Dumas, a 33-year-old Black poet from Sweet Home, Ark., was shot and killed by a New York City Transit Authority police officer at the 125th Street-Lenox Avenue subway station in ...

Turning now to “LBJ” - Lyndon Baines Johnson. Before becoming the 36th president Johnson taught at an elementary school in ...

In the majestic Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington during an Oct. 16 Celebration of Life for Ethel Skakel ...

Spike Lee, Xernona Clayton and Sherrilyn Ifill received the Freedom Award from National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis during ...

Ethel Kennedy died on Thursday at age 96 following complications related to a stroke suffered earlier this month.

Ethel, the widow of late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, died at age 96 on Oct. 10 from complications related to a stroke. After her ...

The tribute to the Kennedy matriarch brings together the pillars of a Democratic Party that is now sharply at odds with her son ...

President Joe Biden has capped a memorial service for Ethel Kennedy by recalling the wife of the late Sen. Robert F ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden joined former Democratic presidents and others to honor longtime human rights advocate and storied political family matriarch Ethel Kennedy at a memorial ...