Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz leads 43rd SIUE MLK Luncheon with calls for unity, honoring East St. Louis leaders and students advancing ...

Poet Phyllis Wheatley, born in 1753, was freed on this day in 1773. Kidnapped in Africa and sold as a slave when she was only ...

This year let’s honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., by remembering his final mission — and by picking up the mantle he left behind. Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis in April 1968 while supporting ...

A judge has ruled that federal prosecutors can’t seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of ...

Morgan Leigh Morrow was arrested for allegedly recruiting social media users to assassinate President Donald Trump, a West ...

Members of a motorcycle club and a street gang clearly targeted an Indiana judge for assassination to derail a domestic abuse case, police said.

Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was executed by the state of Texas at 6:50pm on Jan. 28, 2026. Thompson was convicted of murdering his former girlfriend and her new boyfriend in 1998.