Omar was my big brother – tall, smart, and athletic, who always had a quick joke or intriguing story to share. He was also black. Mom introduced us when I […]

On this day in 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, the state capital. The voting rights march was the third attempt […]

On this day in 1917, riots and demonstrations erupted in the city of Petrograd, now called St. Petersburg. The February Revolution, so named because Russia observed the Julian calendar at […]