Though the U.S. honors workers in September — with Labor Day, which also has Chicago roots — the May 1886 events are commemorated in Chicago by a memorial on Desplaines Street, north of Randolph ...

Instead, the eyes of the world will be on St Peter's Basilica this morning as the pontiff who did so much to restore the ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

Had he remained with us a little longer, Pope Francis would have been creating the first Gen Z saint at the Vatican this ...

A master strategist and committed pacifist, Bayard Rustin was the architect behind ... history as a global icon. Davis’s writings and activism have long challenged the prison-industrial complex ...

Others believe Fyre Festival's creator, 33-year-old Billy McFarland, is a visionary and want to give him a second chance after he was convicted and sentenced to serve several years in prison for ...

“Look at his hands,’ he says, pointing to the image of the guerrilla icon. “He holds them too ... “The day I was sent to prison was the day I lost faith in the revolution,” Fuentes ...

Planning a trip to Scotland? I have actually lost track of how many times I have been to Scotland. It is one of my favourite ...

Inside, its collection of more than 40,000 pieces includes artwork by African American artists, a hymnal that belonged to Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner’s bible, a plantation cabin from South Carolina, ...

“In China nobody is called an architect; we call it ‘big cabinetry ... Even in isolation, though, as an icon of free speech and an outspoken presence on social media whose pronouncements ...