Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace speaks to reporters in Detroit on Oct. 29, 1968. AP ...

On this date in history: In 1776, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman -- the so-called Committee of Five -- were appointed by the Continental Congress ...

Alabama governor George C. Wallace promised “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” during his 1963 inaugural address. In June of 1963, Wallace blocked the door to a University of ...

Integration and inclusion: If they are not identical twins, they are siblings. In the post-slavery period, former slave owners fought to prevent racial integration. Today, the descendants of slave ...

Doing any job for nearly half a century is hard to imagine when you first get started. My 45-year career in journalism stretched from the post-Watergate apex of print newspapers in America to their ...