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From spirituals about the trials of slavery to the fight for civil rights and the modern rhythms of swing music, Duke Ellington told a story about black life that was both beautiful and complex.

America had a mind shaped by its Founders, but the country needed the poet to discover its spirit.

It’s not that the Universe is expanding faster or slower than we previously thought. Instead, the discrepancy in these measurements may ultimately reveal an entirely new aspect of the Universe that scientists are currently in the dark about.

Cenikor, a nationally renowned drug rehabilitation program, has forced patients struggling with addiction to work for free for more than 300 for-profit companies, including some of the nation’s largest, most likely in violation of federal labor law.

Packed in the 737 fiasco are all the economic problems we face: crony capitalism, regulatory capture, offshoring and man vs. machine.

The U.S. Department of Education has been scammed for hundreds of millions of dollars by fraudulent or mismanaged charter schools.

State legislatures are escalating their assault on women's right to choose — and on the women who attempt to exercise it.

Slavery lasted for nearly 250 years. Counting the nearly century-long Jim Crow segregation of African Americans, officially sanctioned racial oppression encompassed more than 80% of U.S. history.

Why the former vice president needs voters to believe America was great before Trump ruined it

The federal Works Progress Administration's version of “public art” was vastly different the the “public art” sponsored by Confederate apologists