On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the course of history. Joseph ...

In his new book, Afro Sheen, the legendary founder of the Johnson Products Company chronicles his creation of a business empire that spanned the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights movement and the rise of ...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara was hired the year following the protests in 2022. O’Hara focused on changing the ...

Symbols really do matter. Trump has placed a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Jackson was an owner of ...

Driscoll was the day supervisor in the AP’s Chicago bureau in the late 1970s and early 1980s when the bureau didn’t have a news editor. This made him the day-to-day leader in the newsroom at a time ...

Chicago organizations that advocate for the national sanctuary city movement sued the federal government over its decision to ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 27, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

Multiple Chicago immigrant advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against Immigration Customs and Enforcement leaders, saying ...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – With the devastating Palisades Fire still smoldering, Lisa Pelton and some of her neighbors in ...

As Trump threatens Chicago, organizers are bracing for raids but also hopeful that a vast suite of local protections and community trainings can limit the scale of deportations.

The breakfast, held annually on MLK day, honors the memory and legacy of Dr. King as well as the work of Reverend Jackson.

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...