Black America is often told that foreign policy is distant, something for diplomats, generals and elites in places most of us will never see.

What is happening in Minnesota should be the kind of wake-up call for Americans who still fail to recognize the truth about this administration and need to understand the grave situation we face as a nation.

When Claudette Colvin died this month, too many Americans learned her name for the first time in an obituary.

Americans are paying more for less when it comes to health care. One in five patients now waits more than two months to see a primary care doctor or specialist.

Americans of all walks of life are witnessing continuing political and cultural shifts in our nation.

In a nation as diverse as ours, immigration enforcement inevitably tests whether equal protection means what it says.

I’ve watched every Virginia governor’s inauguration for the past 30 years.

We are living in a time of deep and dangerous instability.

President Donald Trump is afraid of getting impeached again. He said as much last week.

Each year on the holiday that bears his name, Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered for his immense contributions to the struggle for racial equality.

To honor Martin Luther King Jr. honestly is to remember that he was organizing to make the dream real — and to decide whether we are willing to carry that dangerous, unfinished work forward.

“It’s easy to focus on the methods of civic participation that make news, and hard to imagine the importance of the things we do each day with our own minds and hearts.

The Lady Justice statue, often seen in courthouses, has become the most recognized symbol of American justice.

The State Corporation Commission is reconsidering its approval of Dominion Energy Virginia’s 944-megawatt gas peaker plant, weeks after granting the utility permission to build it.

The midterm elections for Congress won’t take place until November, but already a record number of members have declared they will not run again — 43 in the House and 10 in the Senate.