The Libertyville Historical Society is racing to save the rapidly deteriorating 165-year-old banner by fundraising $30,000 to ...

So now, The Root is taking a closer look at the anti-racist white heroes who were just as down for civil rights as Black ...

The Old Joliet Prison was open for nearly 150 years and has been closed for more than 20. A section of the prison that has ...

Glenn Smeltzer stood with pride in Westmoreland County Courthouse Square on Saturday as he and his son watched a ceremony a ...

Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated ...

President Donald Trump and his allies are seeking to rule through systematic intimidation. It has deep roots in American ...

An 1869 expedition led by John Wesley Powell sailed out of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River in the first official ...

It is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes to attack arts and ideas, seeking to shut theaters and other “dangerous” places ...

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — two years after the ...

Per AJC, 56% of American Jews say they alter their behavior and the way they live out of fear. But we must not fear our ...

Boulder, Colorado, authorities responded to reports that a man near the Pearl Street Mall had a weapon and “people were being ...

Sarah and Yaron loved Israel, each other, and life itself, with joy, hope, and plans for a future they were never able to ...