Leading scholar in the field of critical race theory Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality,” which she has described as a “lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, ...

1856: D. Harper & Co. proposed to the Chicago City Council construction of an iron bridge at Rush Street for $53,000. It ...

After just a few hours of deliberation, jurors sentenced Tanner Horner to death for the murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand in ...

The Carrington Event announced its presence on Earth by causing massive auroras in areas that would not otherwise see them.

Once, you didn't just read a newspaper. You hummed it. Why newspaper marches were a craze — and why we're bringing it back.

Earlier this week, the Defector staff was chatting about Joel Embiid. Watching him give the business to the Boston Celtics in ...

For 70 years, the church served a small Black neighborhood in Clayton. Then urban renewal hit and the church left. Now some ...

While The Dave Matthews Band is known for its music, it’s also known for an infamous bathroom-related incident, that made ...

100 Years Ago, 1926: Governor Gifford Pinchot will be the main speaker at a rally Monday night at 8 o’clock in Odd Fellow’s ...

Often portrayed as hotbeds of revolutionary fervor, the nine colonial colleges offered curricula that proved traditional and ...

Today, the hatred toward Jews rises again. What is striking is how voices that rarely agree are beginning to echo one another ...

It was 1969 when the first stores opened their doors at the Eastwood Mall in Niles. Those stores included Sears, Strouss, F.W ...