who is a great grand-niece of Robert Sengstacke Abbott. What they're saying Abbott founded The Chicago Defender and started the Bud Billiken parade. Today, the parade attracts 300,000 in-person ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, Historic Dorchester Academy will rededicate the Boys’ Dormitory as “Elizabeth B. Moore ...

Russell Special Collections Libraries to discuss the importance of Black journalist in the media and honor Robert Sengstacke Abbott. A panel discussion will be hosted on Tuesday, February 18 at the ...

Robert Sengstacke Abbott (November 24, 1868 – February 29, 1940) was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher and editor. Abbott founded The Chicago Defender in 1905, which grew to have the highest ...

The decision to allow a new trial could have  implications for both the companies and families with babies born prematurely.

Not Robert Pattinson. It’s not a leap to think that the 38-year-old actor with the bedroom eyes and the matinee-idol mug requested that things be even more silly, repulsive, and bizarre.

Prince Frederik, son of Prince Robert of Luxembourg, has died from a rare genetic disease, his father announced. He was 22. Robert and his wife, Princess Julie of Nassau, announced Frederik's ...

Robert John, an itinerant singer-songwriter who was working in construction before scoring a Number One hit with 1979’s “Sad Eyes,” died Monday. He was 79. Michael Pedrick, John’s son, con ...