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 ...

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.

At 94, former MLK Jr. aide and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young explains why the U.S. is in the “worse shape” of his lifetime in a ...

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 ...

On July 4, the United States turns 250 years old. The celebrations will be justified and genuine — this republic has established constitutional ideals rooted in lasting moral st ...