Today, all American citizens are eligible to vote irrespective of race and gender, but that hasn’t always been the case.

Rain forced Delta Sigma Theta to move its rally indoors. But that didn’t dampen the spirits of the 30 local chapter members ...

Democratic National Convention is coming to a conclusion Thursday night in Chicago, with Vice President Kamala Harris slated ...

Former Tennessee Attorney General Paul G. Summers writes this regular column on the history of the U.S. Constitution.

But when Stella Bugbee, the editor of the Times’s Styles section, pointed me to data showing a 64 percent surge in elective ...

Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has sworn in an opposition lawmaker as his prime minister, making her the ...

Get Hawaii’s latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You This reality has cultural ... woman to run for U.S. Congress and a leader of New Mexico’s women’s suffrage movement. In ...

In his new book "Hope for Cynics" Stanford psychology professor Jamil Zaki explains how cynicism became an American epidemic ...

As a loyal Democrat, a liberal, a first-generation son of Greek immigrants, and a tax-and-spend activist who was elected ...

Women have been a part of the American political scene even before they were able to legally vote. From the middle of the ...

Black fraternities and sororities, professional social groups and other organizations have helped establish an infrastructure ...

Princess Dinubolu of Senegal made history by becoming the first black woman to compete in a beauty pageant in the UK. Just ...