Having covered the Rev. Jesse Jackson on and off for more than half a century, I’ve watched him become one of the most quoted ...

A book by a University of Michigan law professor tackles the history around a Supreme Court case that limited the scope of ...

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Representatives Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) covered a range of topics relating to Clyburn’s new book, "The First Eight", at a Wednesday talk hosted by Stanford Law School.

Mary Calvi talks to New York Times bestselling author Sadeqa Johnson about her new novel, "Keeper of Lost Children," based on the stories of mixed-race children abandoned in Germany after World War II ...

What a chance encounter taught me about Jesse Jackson’s true stature - COMMENT: As tributes pour in for the American civil rights leader, Joe Murphy recalls a misjudged interview – and how a frail str ...

Kansans will soon be required to use the bathroom of their biological sex at birth in all government buildings after the ...

The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert called out CBS on Monday for blocking his interview with a political candidate—and figured out a sneaky way around the Federal Communications Commission’s new rule ...

Arab American advocates eulogise Jackson as a civil rights giant who embraced their communities and defended Palestine.

I wrote a book about Jesse Jackson, and we became friends. The cynics didn’t get how he fused moral simplicity and political ...

That November 2024 meeting involved Kirk, Trump, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, and a slideshow with a swath of visual graphics ...