A Beaverton man convicted of sexually assaulting multiple women in a sparse apartment that prosecutors said he rented to carry out the attacks was sentenced Tuesday to the equivalent of a true life ...

Maya Angelou’s books are more than autobiographies—they are living histories that connect past struggles to present realities ...

Military schools removed a book on Ruth Bader Ginsburg because her story includes 'equity ideology' that violates Trump's ...

On Feb. 18 in 2006, Shani Davis carved his place in the history books on the ice when he became the first Black athlete to ...

A woman is suing the fertility clinic that helped her get pregnant using in vitro fertilization two years ago, saying she ...

As the Education Department has called for transgender athletes' NCAA titles to be vacated, one of those winners is "willing to sit down with" the president to discuss to controversy.

The first military commander to oversee the occupation of New Orleans after the Civil War wasn't all good or all bad. But some things just stuck deeper in the collective memory.

Women hold just 5% of leadership positions across the trillion-dollar tech industry. The tech workforce numbers paint a clear ...

Five years after COVID-19 first emerged, the United States is still grappling with the aftereffects of the pandemic that killed millions of people worldwide. They include the gaps in the ...

Cole’s impact extended beyond the realm of music. In 1956, he became the first African American to host a national network television show, “The Nat King Cole Show.” This was a groundbreaking moment, ...

Amnesty International is urging French lawmakers to reject a bill this week that would ban headscarves in all sporting competitions. The bill is backed by right-wing senators and will be debated ...

Part genealogy study, part haunting narrative, historian Mary Frances Berry’s new book, “Slavery After Slavery: ...