(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...

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The heavy-handed responses by the Trump administration to ongoing protests in Los Angeles reveal how little imagination our politicians continue to have when it comes to grasping the causes and ...

The Army’s 250th birthday parade was not the grand military spectacle that many anticipated, and for that Americans can breathe a momentary, measured sigh of relief. It was a family-friendly ...

On Monday, there was a quiet hum of traffic passing on Colorado Boulevard outside the AC Hotel. A hotel employee, who declined to give his name, said it was quiet overnight with no additional protests ...

After police brutalized protesters in Los Angeles, we surveyed repression tactics in cities like Houston and Chicago — plus ...

Hosted by the African-American Cultural and Genealogical Society of Illinois, the weekend includes the National Freedom Day ...

An oversight at his 2010 sentencing for the murder of a Pelham woman made killer Kenneth West eligible for parole 12 years ...

Statistician Nate Silver argued in a recent blog post that part of the Democrats’ problem with young men is that they’re seen ...

The toll of past demonstrations in L.A. has been measured in lives lost and property damaged. But researchers know that the ...

Last fall, the Trump campaign tried to make an issue of the Minnesota governor’s response to 2020 riots in the Twin Cities.