Looking back, I understand what Pryor saw that day at Dulles. He saw possibilities unconfined, unapologetic and unwilling to ...

Every career begins with a defining moment, an instant when preparation meets courage and the future quietly changes course.

Renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman, who chronicled life at Northeast Philadelphia High School in a 1968 film that caused a years-long controversy in the city, has died. He was 96. Zipporah Films ...

“If this plan seems audacious to you, that's good, because that is the direction we must set ourselves," Shah told the crowd ...

Every career begins with a defining moment, an instant when preparation meets courage and the future quietly changes course.

Although Congress has boosted the amount of money for members' security, some Minnesota lawmakers are spending more for their ...

Patrick Healy, an assistant managing editor who oversees The Times’s journalistic standards, talked with four of the journalists who are working on the Epstein files to kick around those questions.

Activism / Obituary / The iconic civil rights leader, who has died at 84, made anti-war and pro-diplomacy politics central to his presidential bids and his lifelong activism. John Nichols The Rev.

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Civil Rights Movement icon and two-time former presidential candidate, has died.

It seems genteel and quaint today, compared to what we’re living through now, but at the time, to a lot of people, the Reagan Revolution was shocking. He and his movement launched a massive assault on ...

A personal story of how bringing Richard Pryor to speak in 1983 led to relationships with Oprah, Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela ...

Jackson would go on to become an American civil and human rights icon; an influential politician and presidential candidate; ...