Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a son of sharecroppers who rose to become one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress and a central figure in the impeachment investigation of President Trump, died on Thursday in Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was 68.

Widely considered Tupac Shakur’s (died in September , 1996 at 25) greatest single hit (the song sold seven million copies at the time of release) and one of the greatest hip-hop songs ever, “Dear Mama” was one of 25 songs that in 2010 were added to the National Recording Registry — a list of sound r

Toni Morrison is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University. Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for Beloved. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1998. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Litera...

A special report from CBS News on the mass shootings that took place in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. August 3 and 4, 2019.

This video is a photography essay remembering Mexico during the 20th Century. From JF Kennedy's visit to the capital; Mexico City to the fall of the Angel of Liberty statue after the 1957 earthquake. From the construction of the Azteca soccer stadium and the Palace of Sports for the 1968 Olympic Gam...

More than 50,000 people gathered in Orlando to pay tribute to the victims of the largest mass murder in the US history after 9/11. They range in age from 18 to 50. A barista, an accountant, a recent high school grad. While different in so many ways, they have one thing in common: They lost their liv...

She was born 90 years ago born, 0n 12 June 1929.

The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought t...

The Hollywood mainstay died Monday at the age of 97 and is being remembered for her music and movies. She was an animal rights advocate. She was in more than 41 movies and was nominated for an Oscar. Doris Day Received the Cecil B. Demil Lifetime Achievement Award during the 1989 Golden Globes.

In 2019 the world will descend on New York City for the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall in conjunction with WorldPride. Be a part of history.