X.J. Kennedy, an award-winning poet, author, translator and educator who schooled millions of students through "The Bedford Reader" and other textbooks and engaged voluntary readers with his ...

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 ...

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.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s assassination, has ...

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

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.

Soul Patrol’ debuts at Sundance, as J.M. Harper documents an all-Black Vietnam unit and their long-overdue reunion decades ...

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

When former USG president PJ Kim '01 became involved in a rally in Nov. 1999 to help protest a series of discriminatory incidents against Korean Americans in Palisades Park, N.J., he was inspired by ...

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 ...