President Lyndon Baines Johnson showed how governments can drive innovation.  It starts with social safety nets.

Local officials should go on the offense to protect important initiatives that have benefited all of us. In particular, they ...

Gov. Phil Murphy was the first governor to stay out of the presidential race in 28 years, leaving Democratic county chairs — ...

Evelyn Seabrook was able to buy a home even though she had only a high school diploma. Glenn Flood worked his way up the ...

Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Frank Lautenberg hold the record for the most appearances on a New Jersey general ...

Things started changing with President Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War. Every president has had his critics, but because of the unpopularity of the war and the fact that television cameras ...

The bill was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 and took effect in 1971. Part of the reason Johnson made the day a uniform holiday was so that Americans had a long weekend "to ...

In Alabama, Washington shares the spotlight with friend-turned-rival Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third president and ...

As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn’t blind to the fact that racism existed. But he also knew ...

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...

Learn more about "Doc" Jones, his time with the Navy, his family, and the start of the Amarillo Branch of the NAACP.