Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first began rapping, Shakur spent a few of his formative years in Baltimore, and ...

Sit back and listen to the heartbreaking tale of what it’s like to achieve the absolute pinnacle of political success … only to have it all stripped away, bit by excruciating bit ...

First of all, it wasn't even initially part of the Statue of Liberty. The statue was built in the 1870s and 1880s. The poem ...

Matthew Kang is the Lead Editor of the Southern California/Southwest region, and has covered dining, restaurants, food ...

Medary graduated from Cornell College in Mount Vernon in 1912 and earned her master’s degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in 1914. After teaching in Rhode Island, Illinois and ...

It must have been a dismal childhood that Robert Allen Zimmerman spent in the town of Hibbing in the upper Midwest US state of Minnesota - somewhere in the middle of nowhere, with long dark winters, ...