Symbols really do matter. Trump has placed a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Jackson was an owner of ...

Driscoll was the day supervisor in the AP’s Chicago bureau in the late 1970s and early 1980s when the bureau didn’t have a news editor. This made him the day-to-day leader in the newsroom at a time ...

Chicago organizations that advocate for the national sanctuary city movement sued the federal government over its decision to ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 27, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

The Trump administration’s long-promised “largest mass deportation operation” in U.S. history, which was announced to begin ...

As Trump threatens Chicago, organizers are bracing for raids but also hopeful that a vast suite of local protections and community trainings can limit the scale of deportations.

The breakfast, held annually on MLK day, honors the memory and legacy of Dr. King as well as the work of Reverend Jackson.

During Martin Luther King Jr.'s years of public appearances, he visited S.C. 10 times between 1959 and 1967, favoring the ...

Jan. 20 is a federally observed holiday in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Over the weekend, communities ...

Since its enactment in 1986, I’ve attended numerous Martin Luther King Jr. holiday commemorations. Nearly all have been disappointing. Few speakers demonstrate knowledge of the foremost leader of the ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and ...