Only free people, free speech and press and freedom to gather in protests can continually uncover unjust aspects of society that develop in hidden ways.

Companies like USA Happy Baby and Star Baby Care brought pregnant women into the United States to give birth. It's part of a ...

The US-Israeli war on Iran is transforming the geopolitical order, and could even unleash a global economic crisis. The conflict has caused the largest oil shock in history, disrupting markets and ...

Elizabeth Freeman’s landmark 1781 lawsuit transformed revolutionary ideals into legal reality, setting precedent that led to the collapse of slavery in Massachusetts.

The insatiable appetite for risk and violence of Jesse James (seated left) led him to form a new mob in the mid-1870s, in the shape of the James-Younger gang He is perhaps the most notorious outlaw of ...

That is the uncomfortable truth at the heart of the government’s recent motion at the United Nations to classify the Atlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity. Don’t get me wrong; I fully ...

The most profound aspect of the Passover Seder is that we aren’t just reciting history. In fact, the Haggadah barely focuses on the historical facts at all – Moses, the central figure of the era, is ...

Lessons about Chavez, long seen as an iconic Latino leader and the force behind the farmworker movement, look to be changing.

The past week thrust the history of Africans and Black people back into the global spotlight. Ghana co-sponsored a United Nations resolution declaring the Transatlantic Slave Trade the worst crime ...

From Argentina to Siam and the Ottoman Empire, these lesser-known figures of Greek descent played key roles in shaping world history.