A congregation on Chicago's Near West Side gathered over the weekend to commemorate 60 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled far and wide to spread his message of equality through the use of nonviolent ...

Everyone remembers where they were when Gloria lost it. The Barbie movie's big speech—America Ferrera, voice breaking, listing every single impossible thing the world expects women to be—hit something ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In June of 1826, the citizens of Washington, D.C. invited Thomas Jefferson to their celebration of America’s 50th Independence Day. His ...

An experience with immigration reminds the writer that the United States was founded on an idea of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for all.

"There's a kind of narcotic effect of those words — free speech," says legal scholar Mary Anne Franks. "It's because we think ...

White supremacist rhetoric is the kind of free speech our country tolerates. Yet when it comes to leftist free speech, there ...

Delivering the keynote address at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago Thursday, it was clear that "hope" is still at the core of President Barack Obama's legacy and mission.

He probably didn’t anticipate, though, that the most powerful American poetry would come from its songwriters. With the creation of jazz, blues, gospel, and country music, and the synthesis of those ...

The movement was better at critiquing the system than reshaping it. But it has never had this much mainstream political power ...

Former President Barack Obama delivering a half-hour-long speech on Thursday to mark the opening of his new presidential ...