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The National Park Service (NPS) has removed a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the ...

A Ladies Auxiliary Women’s History Museum is planned near the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum in Pullman.

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

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In 1963, King went to Chicago repeatedly to support the growing movement ... with three of four white Californians supporting it. Much of the work of the civil rights movement was unpopular in its own ...

People gather during a rally led by the advocacy group Trans Up Front Illinois at Federal Plaza on March 30, 2025, in Chicago. Sunday’s protest took place a day before Trans Day of Visibility.

It plunged into a civil war in 2013 and then again three years later, until the violence was stopped by a fragile ceasefire agreement in 2018. The nation is governed by a coalition government ...