The deep history of the Penn Center, a former school for enslaved West Africans, and its connection to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Prior award recipients include Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, the Dalai Lama and Martin Luther King Jr. Reviewers describe their visits to the Nobel Peace Prize as hit or miss. Although some say ...

On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, two acclaimed authors who have written about the conflict and its ...

New York City has named a street after Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in recognition of his lifelong contributions to global ...

Institutions of higher learning contribute tremendously to the pool of knowledge, regardless of their conservative or liberal ...

Passover, the "holiday of freedom", is also the "holiday of Spring" in the Torah - and is "the Spring of the entire world" in the words of Rav Avraham Yitschak HaCohen Hook, Israel's first chief rabbi ...

But the world would soon know Martin Luther King ... a requirement for registering to vote. In 1968, King, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, was in Memphis supporting striking ...

President Trump threatens to cut funding for historically Black colleges and universities, threatening their very existence and the futures of their students.

Next Step Festival will launch this spring at the Gural Theatre with a weeklong lineup of boundary-pushing performances ...

“A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to ...

Today, racism in this country is still a central force that progressives are working to change. We are, after all, living in a period when authoritarianism, racism, and incipient fascism are all on ...