A social worker and teacher imprisoned for his activism, he later wrote about the toll of incarceration and worked to help ...

Queens College will host its annual celebration of the life and legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan 19.

This year's DreamWeek events, which take place Jan. 10-26, are organized around the theme "Neighbors." They run the gamut ...

Bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961, he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal waiting rooms.

Liberation theology emerged in South America in the 1960s and 1970s as a response to widespread poverty and the sliding ...

James Arthur Ray, 67, a self-styled self-help “guru” whose sweat lodge retreat event led to the death of three people in ...

The Jewish Federation of the Berkshires welcomes journalist and author Larry Tye, who will talk about his new book, "The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed ...

Free speech and national security can often conflict. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln prevented newspapers from ...

A SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) suit brought against Columbia professors who criticized the school’s ...

The principles of freedom of speech have a special place in the world of the university. How institutions enact them has ...

A recent bird flu outbreak has resulted in the deaths of approximately 344,000 turkeys at Ottawa County farms.