Despite a former directive that U.S. flags would be flown at half-staff during President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration ...

Throughout American history, images of Black women have been symbolized as the mammy, the welfare queen, the jezebel, the sapphire — and yes, the tragic mulatto. Meanwhile, the women themselves have ...

Washington mourned Jimmy Carter last week at the National Cathedral, which has been a guide for activism in the Trump era.

The U.S. flag code lays out parameters for lowering the U.S. flag to half-staff, including a 30-day period for current or ...

A Russian man who sought asylum in the U.S. three years ago sparked global praise for rescuing an American flag from a ...

GOP governors of at least eight states ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on President-elect Trump’s Inauguration Day, ...

Democratic National Convention in Chicago was both a political potluck and a fashion show. Keynote speakers like Michelle ...

Judge Juan Merchan imposed an "unconditional discharge” that means Trump receives no prison time or probation. Trump ...

Days of formal ceremonies and remembrances have honored Carter for decency and using a prodigious work ethic to do more than obtain political power.

The pastor recognized Carter’s caregivers and hospice nurses, along with Mary Prince, who served as Amy Carter’s nanny at the ...

The importance of ritual, following the death of a president, serves the nation and honors the man. The American presidency is wrapped in a multitude of rituals that are powerfully, gloriously dull.