When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Community members gathered at Michigan State University on Friday for a ‘transcribe-a-thon’ in honor of an early civil rights trailblazer.

He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.

The civil rights activist speaks to Vanity Fair about her new memoir, her experience with the Anti-Defamation League, and ...

As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn't blind to the fact racism existed. But he also knew freedom ...