This is what I call the push toward violent social change, my shorthand for political violence presented as activism, and for the celebration or justification of such acts after the fact. The impulse ...

From Abraham Lincoln to John F. Kennedy, and from Malcolm X to Martin Luther King Jr., America’s story has too often been marred by the silencing of visionary voices through violence. Each loss forces ...

Knoxville College has a long and significant history, from students' civil rights activism to hosting notable speakers over ...

From Abraham Lincoln to John F. Kennedy, and from Malcolm X to Martin Luther King Jr., America’s story has too often been marred by the silencing of visionary voices through violence. Each loss forces ...

Robin Williams died in 2014 after a bout of crippling depression, when he chose to unalive himself. The Good Will Hunting (1997) and Dead Poet Society (1989) actor won an Academy Award, along with ...

Kirk once called the landmark civil rights law granting equal rights to people of color “a mistake,” and described civil rights icon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as “awful," leading many Black ...

The Charlie Kirk tragedy again reminds me of how similar our current times are to the late 1960s. Then, we were getting ever more deeply involved in the Vietnam War. Today, the same pivotal questions ...

The Trump administration has released nearly 200,000 pages of FBI records on Martin Luther King Jr., prompting backlash from his family and civil rights advocates who say the surveillance was part of ...

It was a decade that will forever be remembered as the ‘swinging 60s’ - a momentous era when London became the pop culture capital of the world, when music, fashion and the arts exploded into life, ...