Charles Q. Brown Jr. is speaking out against Donald Trump‘s administration for using the military to target American cities.

Billy Gene Mills was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1963 and served until 1974. He was also the first Black ...

The former president and first lady reflect on race and the symbolism of his presidency in this week's PEOPLE cover story ...

In a speech delayed by a two-hour evacuation of the National Mall due to severe weather, President Trump mixed politics with ...

The progressions, and inevitable reversals, of civil rights in the 20th century have continued America's undeclared civil war ...

Republicans called the 1990s a "holiday from history" — but after 9/11, history roared back.

"It was never realistic to think that because of one election, one president, somehow 400 years of history suddenly goes away ...

NPR member station reporters across the U.S. asked people how they are thinking about their country on its semiquincentennial ...

Frederick Douglass's 1852 Fourth of July speech highlighted the hypocrisy of celebrating independence while slavery still ...

Perhaps the most famous example of a founding-era Black American wielding the words of the Declaration as a promise to be ...

Mount Rushmore, Mount Vernon, and national parks take center stage as America marks its 250th anniversary with renewed ...