Sostre laid a foundation for contemporary Black anarchism and prison abolition. A new biography finally tells his story.

A church in a historic New Jersey town was being restored for a theater company's use. Contractors found a letter from 1891 in its rafters.

Unlike Black children who had to leave their neighborhoods to seek an education, white children in Boston had the option to ...

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman […] ...

Republican calls to dismantle what they have called a "bureaucratic boondoggle" go back more than four decades.

Advertisement Article continues below this ad Few people, however, know the history of the phrase “pride and prejudice,” which I explore in my new book, “Jane Austen, Abolitionist: The Loaded History ...

Plans are afoot to try to ensure the historic Preston Guild festival survives the abolition of the council ... and cited the Guild Wheel as a perfect example of such a scheme from 2012.

there was limited federal involvement in education. Examples of federal legislation before the agency include the 1944 "GI Bill" and the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act. As the federal ...

Atomic bomb survivors, or hibakusha, and Japanese high school students, held a demonstration in New York, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. They are visiting the US city to attend the ...

A representative of Nihon Hidankyo, last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, has called for the abolition of nuclear weapons at a UN conference on the treaty banning nuclear weapons. Hamasumi Jiro ...