For more than five decades, Mattie Collins has joined the worshipers and curious onlookers who pour into a green-and-white building within earshot of Interstate 95. They climb up the stairs, take off ...

You celebrate civil rights heroes once they feel safe, but their real power came from disruption, risk and costly moral ...

"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me -- black, confident, cocky," Muhammad Ali once said. The grandson of a slave and an admirer of Malcolm X, Ali was a fiercely ...

Imagine strolling up to a historical marker, pulling out your phone and hearing from famous jockey Oliver Lewis, boxer Muhammad Ali, civil rights icon Whitney Young, or the Harlem Hellfighters. You ...

Muhammad Ali redefined heavyweight boxing—he broke every rule about how big men should fight. Across 21 years as a professional, Ali won 56 fights (37 by knockout) and lost only 5. Ali turned fights ...

Stripped of his titles and sentenced to five years in prison in 1967, Ali was also banned from boxing for three years. But he was also seen as a voice for the anti-war movement – a leading figure in ...