Dorcey began her political activism in the 1970s, having returned to Ireland after living in France and England. Having met other queer people abroad, Dorcey was struck by the repression that ...

Last year, the US State Department noted the “life-threatening” conditions of prisons in Libya. Amnesty International and Médecins Sans Frontières have each documented the awful conditions of prisons ...

Gov. Tim Walz’s proposed elimination of nonpublic pupil aid to fund transportation, textbooks, nurses and counselors is rife with irony.

He knew about the legend of the Colossus of Rhodes.' Emma Lazarus' poem, 'The New Colossus' mentions it." Albacete said Bartholdi likely got the the idea of crafting the Statue of Liberty with a ...

Nellie Pou of Passaic County summoned the famous Emma Lazarus poem inscribed on the Statute of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” ...

The poem in no way represents any kind of core American value. It is the work of one woman named Emma Lazarus. And so the the poem speaks to the core values of Emma Lazarus, not of the United ...

Famously, Lady Liberty has a plaque of Emma Lazarus’s poem “The New Colossus.” “’Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your ...

Ken Cuccinelli tweaked the famous poem from Emma Lazarus, whose words, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," are long associated with immigration to the ...

Georgina Schuyler’s campaign to include Emma Lazarus’ poem on the statue was a retort to nativism. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via New-York Historical Society, MadGrin via Wikimedia ...