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Donald Trump’s narrow escape from an assassin’s bullet led me – a historian who has written about political polarization and the Civil Rights Movement – to think back to another norm-smashing populist who encountered death on the campaign trail: former Alabama governor and U.S. presidential candidate George Wallace.

From Marvin Gaye to Little Simz, here are 14 songs that illuminate the power of protest music to make change, as ranked by Finn Cliff Hodges

On the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, speakers called attention to a nationwide backlash against LGBTQ+ rights

Every now and then, a voice can matter. Mahalia Jackson had one of them.

The March on Washington of 1963 is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech

America’s 22nd state is associated with its rural backwaters, says James March in The Mail on Sunday. In fact, it is sometimes described as the most “redneck” of the southern states. But first-time visitors may be pleasantly surprised by Alabama. It is dotted with attractions, including, as you might expect,…

Four #Chiefs legends — Albert Lewis, Otis Taylor, Lloyd Wells, and Marty Schottenheimer — advanced closer to Hall of Fame election.

Three new landmarks will honor Emmett Till, whose 1955 murder in Mississippi became a rallying point in the Civil Rights Movement.

On June 12, 1963, Evers was assassinated at his home in Jackson, Miss., by a Ku Klux Klan member. While other leaders pushed for equality across the U.S., Evers focused on his native Mississippi.