Discover 21 influential Black leaders who changed history through activism, politics, education, science and justice.

its laws etching the violent subjugation of Black Americans into every facet of life—and the White House no exception. Whittington had met President Lyndon B. Johnson, but there was no reason ...

In a career spanning six decades, Patrick O'Donnell photographed U.S. presidents, from Lyndon B. Johnson to Joe Biden, and ...

"Furthermore, he expressed racist sentiments that demeaned both the Black and Mexican communities," the statement ... In it, Leal can be heard talking about former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

In the gray language of the federal bureaucracy, the funding that mattered most was from the Teaching Health Centers Graduate ...

He taught at Columbia University, contributed to The Washington Post and spent years researching the suburbs, the news media ...

Kennedy was shot and killed June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after giving a speech.

About 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy have been released, including ...

"I was interested in this common phenomenon I was seeing historically within two generations, a kind of reversal of fortune happening, specifically as it pertained to Black political ... benefited ...

It’s only taken Virginia 400-plus years to get around to it, but a fairly routine political event last weekend made it nearly ...

It has become one of the great suspense stories in American letters, the nonfiction equivalent of Ahab and the white whale: Robert Caro and his leviathan, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Caro, perhaps the ...