Groundbreaking gay rights activist and Navy veteran Harvey Milk was in the news this week as the Navy vessel named in his honor made headlines as its pending renaming looms.  "Chief Pentagon ...

Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated ...

The boy lifts his head higher and speaks with a clearer tone. “I’m Emmett.” ...

On Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, Mayor Monroe Nichols, the city’s first African American mayor, announced the Greenwood Trust, a $105 million private charitable fund created to address the ...

Khadim Thiam, 23, and nine other Black New York City college students unexpectedly went viral on TikTok when he posted a ...

Her book inspired survivors to tell their stories, women to organize rape crisis centers and helped lead to the passage of ...

One of Mississippi’s longest-serving current state senators, who published a memoir about how education helped him move from ...

Men, Women and Rape explored pernicious cultural and legal attitudes about rape and helped debunk the long-held view that ...

Wright Thompson, a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine, is the author of The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi. Most everyone is taught that Emmett Till whistled at ...

The barn is where, on Aug. 28, 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till was brutally beaten and killed by two (and allegedly more) white men, who murdered him for the sin of allegedly ...

When President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till’s ...