Jesse Jackson’s lyrical swagger and political ‘juice’ resonate as students learn about his legacy

At King College Prep on Chicago’s South Side, high schoolers got a crash course about the civil rights leader after his death ...

Everyone Hates This Highway. What’s the Best Way to Fix It?

Community groups are opposing proposals to expand the decades-old Cross Bronx Expressway in favor of more limited repairs and improvements to local streets.
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1980, Waylon Jennings Topped the Charts With a Song Rodney Crowell Finished Writing in Jail

Three years after Rodney Crowell finished writing this song in jail, the legendary Waylon Jennings made it a No. 1 hit.
Smithsonian Magazine

The Little-Known Story of the Enslaved Africans Who Found Freedom in the European Fight Over North America

Long before the famous Underground Railroad, those seeking freedom from slavery traveled on foot, by boat and under cover of darkness to Fort Mose in Spanish-controlled Florida ...

The woman who quietly changed the face of the civil rights movement

Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality.

Gangs turn LA’s homeless camps into squalid ATMs – collecting rent and running open air drug markets

On Los Angeles streets, tents aren’t just signs of homelessness — they’re where gangs openly deal drugs and collecting rent. Whether its RV rows choking Compton Boulevard, Skid Row’s packed tent maze ...