On Wednesday night, a new Very Local documentary called "The Freedom Center: Truth, Trauma, Triumph," is shining a spotlight ...

CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker joined the Illinois America 250 Commission at Navy Pier Wednesday to announce plans for ...

Olivia Nuzzi expressed that she should have displayed more shame when the scandal first came to light last year.

The year in publishing saw such notable releases as the latest “Hunger Games” novel and the first book in years from Thomas ...

Exactly 70 years ago on Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was taken to jail for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a ...

Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, communities across the country revisit the moment and the symbol that helped ...

Seventy years ago, Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of a bus, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott. Montgomery, Alabama, and other cities will commemorate the historic act of defiance Monday.

In the winter of 1969, a group of students staged a protest against racism and occupied the computer lab at Montreal’s Sir ...