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Harvard Law professor and civil rights scholar Charles J. Ogletree Jr. died after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

On July 20, 1967, more than a thousand people from a wide array of community organizations and other groups convened in Newark to discuss the most pressing issues of the day facing African-Americans at the first national Black Power Conference. It was one of the largest such gatherings of Black leaders, with representatives of nearly […]

On this day, July 12, in 1967, tension between police and residents in Newark, New Jersey, boiled over in what is now known as the Newark Rebellion. As in most major metropolitan cities, police officers were primarily of Irish and Italian descent and African-Americans were frequently victims of police brutality, which was rarely prosecuted. In […]

Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a towering figure in Connecticut politics who rose to national prominence for taking on his party during the Watergate hearings as a junior Republican senator, was remembered Monday as a politician from a bygone era, unshackled by partisanship. During more than 30 years in

Tulare Lake's rebirth will reshape life in the San Joaquin Valley for years to come. But longtime residents remain committed to the region and its remarkable seasonal rhythms.