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In October 1955 columnist I.F. Stone asserted: “The American Negro needs a Ghandi to lead him, and we need the American Negro to lead us.”1  On August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Americans thought they were...

November 10 1290: The community of Huesca, Spain prohibited Christians from buying meat or poultry from Jews under a penalty of 70 days in jail. 1509: Emperor Maximilien issued a second mandate reproaching the Jews of Frankfort for disobeying his first...

Good Sunday morning. Remember: tonight isn’t a school night. Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Packers play the Cowboys in Irving, Texas, at 4:40 p.m. on Fox, and Steelers play the Chiefs in Kansas City at 8:20 p.m. on NBC. REP. JOHN LEWIS’S trilogy...

Change has come to one of America’s largest Christian denominations. Last week the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elected its first female presiding bishop, the church’s top office. Bishop Elizabeth Eaton won in a surprise 600-28...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elected the first woman to its top office Wednesday as Bishop Elizabeth Eaton of Cleveland soared to a surprise defeat of Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson, a 12-year incumbent who had been widely expected to win...