Canton held its inaugural commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1964 visit, featuring his cousin Joel King.

The deeply disturbing news, more than 30 years after his death, that American civil rights hero and Arizona icon Cesar Chavez now stands accused of sexual abuse and assault, including by at least two ...

Every generation chooses its heroes carefully. Sometimes those heroes emerge from struggle, sacrifice, and long movements for justice. That is how the ...

A Kenyan environmentalist, she began by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. By Jeffrey Gettleman This obituary was ...

US political scientist, academic and diplomat Ralph Bunche poses at his office in New York on May 28, 1954. Learn from Nobel laureate Bunche this Black History Month: lasting peace requires ending ...

President Donald Trump welcomed leaders from around the world on Thursday as he hosted the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace in Washington, D.C. One country that would not be joining the board ...

President Donald Trump bitterly complained about his failure to win a Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday in asides to his Board of Peace that included the false claim that a U.S. ally “screwed” him out of ...

President Donald Trump still really wants a Nobel Peace Prize. Trump returned to his familiar campaign rhetoric while delivering remarks at a Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace on ...

Say this for Donald Trump: It isn’t hard to figure out what he wants, because he tells us. What he wants now is a Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee is more than aware of this. The ...

Jonas Gahr Støre, the mild-mannered prime minister of Norway and the scion of a wealthy industrial family, was returning home from a ski outing one Sunday last month when he decided to dash off a text ...

Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi has been beaten nearly to death while imprisoned in Iran, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Wednesday. The committee said it had received “credible reports” of ...

OSLO, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Wednesday that it had called on Iran to immediately free activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi from prison. Mohammadi, ...