Before the sit-ins and freedom rides, before nearly dying at the hand of an Alabama state trooper at the Edmund Pettus Bridge and before ascending to …

How a scholar, advocate, and judge upended the entirety of American political thought. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, scholar, lawyer, judge, and Justice, died on Friday at the age of eighty-seven. Born the year...

(CNN) — George Floyd moved to Minnesota for a fresh start — an opportunity to better himself and to be a better father. And while so many now know the Houston native by his full name, those who knew him...

Before she was a hashtag or a headline, before protesters around the country chanted her name, Breonna Taylor was a 26-year-old woman who played cards with her aunts and fell asleep watching movies with...

(CNN) — Many people have a little brother or sister who messes with their stuff, asks too many questions and makes a nuisance of themselves. For many years, Kobe Bryant was Michael Jordan's, the Chicago...

More than a year after disclosing his stage-four pancreatic cancer diagnosis in the calmest way possible, longtime Jeopardy! host and arbiter of …

This should’ve been Chadwick Boseman’s decade. IMDB lists his first acting credit on the NBC drama Third Watch in 2003; by 2018 he had officially …

Lucille Bridges, who in 1960 braved a gauntlet of threats and racist slurs to escort her daughter to a formerly all-white school in New Orleans in what became a symbol of opposition to segregation, has...

Sean Connery wasn’t a stranger to moviegoers when he made his debut as James Bond in the 1962 film Dr. No, the first big-screen outing for Ian Fleming’s super-spy. Connery had been around for awhile. almost...

Fans from Argentina to Italy paid tribute to soccer great Diego Maradona, who died of a heart attack on Nov. 25 at age 60. (Reuters) He was the unrepentant antihero of England’s most painful soccer story,...

Nearly 200,000 people have died so far due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Here are the stories remembering the lives of those we have lost this year.

In a year that will be remembered for loss, we look back at some of the most famous people who died in 2020. Among the lives we lost this year: trailblazers Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Lewis; acclaimed...

The English actor, who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died. He was 85. The bodybuilder-turned-actor, who also appeared in the Stanley Kubrick classic A Clockwork Orange, passed...