It was originally established by Congress in 1888 as Decoration Day, a holiday for federal workers in the District of ...

June 3 is when Kentucky and Tennessee honor the dead from the Civil War, and Tennessee calls it Confederate Decoration Day. Yes. A bill to stop celebrating Confederate Memorial Day and designate ...

While Wolf, as expected, did not name which player the Patriots’ top brass were also debating on taking at No. 38, both Boston Sports Journal’s Greg Bedard and MassLive’s Mark Daniels ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in Boston, thousands of people are expected to gather at the same site to honor ...

As a teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the city’s segregated school system ...

Boston celebrates the 60 year anniversary of 1965 Freedom Rally at a time when the Trump administration is waging war on diversity ... 1965 protest brings civil rights movement to the Northeast ...

BOSTON — (AP) — As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the city's ...

As a large crowd reflected on the centenary of the Albury and District War Memorial on Anzac Day atop Monument Hill, a special guest slept soundly throughout the entire proceedings.

The fourth edition of the Southern Poverty Law Center's report detailed the challenges that researchers called the "politics of Civil War memory ... of its Confederate memorial, overcoming ...

“Edward Bage was born on 17 April 1888 in St Kilda, Melbourne,” Australian War Memorial Director Matt Anderson PSM said. Known as ‘Bob’, he attended Church of England Grammar School before studying ...

It was July 18, 1863, at the heart of the Civil War. Charging with the 54th was Sgt. William Carney, who saw the colors fall. He picked up the flag and carried it forward, reaching the wall of the ...