March is Women’s History Month, and WTTW is marking the occasion with programming that spotlights women’s contributions to politics, civil rights, the arts, literature, science, and beyond.

It marked 100 years since Carter G. Woodson launched Negro History Week, which became Black History Month. And it marked the ...

Former President Bill Clinton said in his remarks, "I'm here more as a friend than a former president. He was my friend when I needed him." ...

When Kenneth Simpson was in the 10 th grade at Howard High School in the early 1980s, he recalled seeing the Rev. Jesse Jackson at an “I Am Somebody” PUSH Excel Scholarship Program rally at the school ...

In May 2000, a few months before I left my native southeastern Kentucky to attend college in Washington, D.C., the Rev. Jesse Jackson came to a nearby town. The civil rights leader and two-time ...

Canadian authorities are investigating a deadly shooting that killed 10 at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School after reports named 18-year-old Jesse Strang as the suspected gunman.Two Canadian news outlets ...

The suspect in two shootings at a high school and a home in British Columbia’s quiet community of Tumbler Ridge on Tuesday has been identified as 18-year-old transgender woman Jesse Van Rootselaar.

Two leading congressional candidates are taking more and more attacks as the race heats up to represent a district that stretches from Chicago’s South Side, through the south suburbs into central ...

For the 50th anniversary of Black History Month, it's worth looking at the life of the great American Civil Rights champion Jesse Owens, who became a symbol of American greatness and dignity. James ...

Deranged trans gunman Jesse Van Rootselaar’s alarming social media footprint paints a portrait of a deeply disturbed young man with a fixation on hallucinogenic drugs and guns — dating back years ...

A gunman who murdered eight people in the second-deadliest school shooting in Canadian history is a transgender tearaway who also killed his mother and brother. Jesse Strang, 18, opened fire in the ...

Canadian trans mass shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar is seen wearing makeup in a selfie he shared in a transgender online forum — in which he excitedly touted it was his “first time” getting dolled up.