Bilbo's birthday speech in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring began with the celebratory phrases one might ...

OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs — and the spike in Canadian nationalism they inspired — are being described as the "dominant story" of 2025. As we navigate through unprecedented times, ...

Like Torrey Snow (“What’s lost in the debate over slavery reparations,” Dec. 17), I’ve been skeptical about reparations for slavery — if perhaps for different reasons. But the case for compensating ...

Here at Deadline we are fortunate to have the opportunity to interview some of the industry’s best and brightest. The topic of these interviews is generally fairly serious — covering the dedication to ...

A final report produced by a commission established to investigate the history of lynchings in Maryland urges the state and several local jurisdictions to acknowledge ...

BOSTON (AP) — Inside the wide mouth of a stoneware jar, Daisy Whitner’s fingertips found a slight rise in the clay — a mark she hoped was a trace left behind by her ancestor, an enslaved potter who ...

John Blymire, the ringleader of the Hex Murder of 1928, is the third great-uncle of Weigelstown’s Kyle Dunlap. That notorious murder at Thanksgiving in 1928 has intrigued York County residents for ...

Five years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom set in motion a process that would place on his desk a series of bills to advance reparations for California’s descendants of slavery. Their arrival has revealed the ...

Governor Gavin Newsom of California has signed legislation creating a state agency dedicated to processing reparations claims for descendants of slaves, the most substantial reparations program at the ...

Emily Brontë published her masterpiece, Wuthering Heights, in 1847. Her novel is a haunting piece of literature, a psychological exploration of passionate and, for the time, unusual characters. It was ...