Inductees Harriette Gillem Robinet, Timuel Black and Oscar Brown Jr. are not only celebrated writers but civil rights activists who promoted a message of perseverance.

Trump ramped up ICE operations in Los Angeles, as well as other Democratic strongholds like Chicago and New York. ICE is ...

Momentum has been building in Illinois to research the state’s extensive Underground Railroad sites and decide how to ...

The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Mobile Museum of Tolerance visited St. Augustine in June. It offers mobile workshops at schools and community centers.

The choir he created then still lifts their voices today, raising a joyful noise since 1959. Later renamed the Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir after a young Miles College student who composed the ...

Richard Hunt” opens Friday at the Loyola University Museum of Art, spotlighting America's most prolific public art sculptor.

1989: Phil Jackson was hired as head coach of the Chicago Bulls, replacing Doug Collins. After the Bulls won their sixth championship trophy, Jackson departed — and so did Michael Jordan and Scottie ...

Mick Jenkins may not be in the spotlight, hell, he may not even want to be, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find many artists ...

"Good Trouble Lives On" protests are scheduled to take place on the anniversary of the death of civil rights icon John Lewis.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Richard Hunt's vast body of work includes more than 160 public sculptures across the country. The Chicago native's work "Eagle Columns" can be seen in Jonquil Park at 1001 W.

April 4, 2017 - The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the Civil Rights Act prohibits workplace discrimination against LGBTQ employees, after Kimberly Hively sues Ivy Tech Community College for ...

The Trump administration has formally accused Harvard University of violating civil rights laws by not doing enough to combat campus antisemitism, and is threatening to pull all federal funding fro… ...