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A panel discussion in Paducah recently focused on issues of "Race in America." The forum is part of West Kentucky Community and Technical College's…

Being snowed in this week may have given some the opportunity to catch up on the films nominated for this year's Academy Awards, airing February 22 on…

Journalist Jamiles Lartey calls policing an "avatar of American racism." Justin Chang reviews Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods. Davidson and Apatow talk about their new film, The King of Staten Island.

“The time is at hand for reckoning with the past, recognizing the truth of the present, and moving together to redeem the nation for our future.” —Dr.…

Lusia Harris was the only woman to be officially drafted to the NBA. She turned the NBA down in 1977. Harris scored the first points in Olympic women's basketball history.

Vaughan was, arguably, the foremost interpreter of Brazilian music in jazz history. Recorded three years before she died, Brazilian Romance is her equivalent of Johnny Cash's American Recordings — full of contemporary spirit, propelled by a timeless voice.

Eddie McCoy is an unlikely historian. He grew up and has lived his whole life in Oxford, North Carolina -- a tobacco town of some 10,000 people. When he was injured in a car accident and couldn’t keep working, he found a tape recorder and started interviewing people. His work is a unique window on small town life in the South.

The Avalanche's Cale Makar was awarded the series' most valuable player as the Colorado team defeated the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning.

After a failed 1848 escape of slaves in Washington, D.C., divisions deepened between influential slave-owners and abolitionists. The nation's capital was swept up in controversy that would soon change the course of history.

Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook in his Harvard University dorm room. Within months, he became the youngest self-made billionaire in history. Ben Mezrich's new book The Accidental Billionaires charts his meteoric rise.