Voters in District 5 will elect a new council person for the first time since 2013, when City Council president Mary Sheffield became the youngest person ever elected to the body. The district spans ...

A date that speaks of freedom delayed. On that day, Union Army General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced what should have already been a reality. The Emancipation Proclamation, ...

The heat is not just creeping in—it’s already here, and Detroit isn’t waiting to act. With weekend forecasts showing ...

1968— The United States Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing. The deci­sion came in a case known as Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. The court used as its precedent ...