Civil Rights Icon Hopes For Solidarity Under Obama Longtime civil rights activist Rev. Joseph Lowery will deliver the benediction at President-elect Obama's inauguration Tuesday.

GDANSK, Poland — Solidarity, the independent Polish trade union that four decades ago started an avalanche of dissent that swept away Communism, has more modest ambitions these days.

Anti-communist leader and former Polish president Lech Wałęsa has been hospitalised and undergone surgery due to ongoing ...

That symbol has since become a worldwide icon of the tragedy. When Jean Jullien learned of the Paris attacks, the French artist dashed off a pen-and-ink mash-up of the Eiffel Tower with a peace sign.

The scene was classic Washington: diplomats trading gossip and business cards with journalists over hors d’oeuvres; a lawyer chatting up a lobbyist between sips of champagne.

Demonstrators raise their fists in a sign of solidarity on May 30, 2020 in Denver, Colorado while protesting the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while while being arrested and ...

A plaque commemorating Polish Solidarity legend Anna Walentynowicz was unveiled on Wednesday on the house where she once lived at 49 Grunwaldzka Street in the Baltic port city of Gdańsk.