Ask most people who Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was, and the words "civil rights leader" are blurted out. Yet he was so much ...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has released two new commemorative stamps dedicated to Muhammad Ali. The stamp was ...

Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer and critic. She mostly wrote essays, but ...

The prizes are traditionally highly coveted and prestigious, cherished by recipients, carrying global fame and a hefty ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado presents her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Trump at White House ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, is so famous that it often eclipses his other speeches.

T he oldest baby boomers — once the vanguard of an American youth that revolutionized U.S. culture and politics — turn 80 in ...

Friends and protégés of Meyer Schapiro, one of the most important scholars of modern art, show how to join together without conforming.

The Democrats’ obsession with process prevents their ability to make real change.

While it can be gifted, refused or displayed, the Nobel Peace Prize itself — once awarded — belongs to its original recipient ...

Today in Music History for Jan. 16: In 1849, Stephen Humbert, who in 1801 compiled the first English-language collection of vocal music, died in Saint John, N.B. at the age of 82. In 1908, Broadway ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta. His father, a church pastor in the segregated south, was a significant influence on his son. In ...