For taking great risks in pursuit of greater truths, for the imperfect but essential quest for facts, for speaking up and for speaking out, the Guardians — Jamal Khashoggi, the Capital Gazette, Maria Ressa, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo — are TIME's Person of the Year.

Today’s video Google Doodle, illustrated by Los Angeles-based guest artist Loveis Wise and narrated by actor and activist LeVar Burton, honors the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth. Short for “June Nineteenth,” Juneteenth marks the true end of chattel slavery across the United States— which didn’t act

In the fight for equality, she had no equal. Felicity Jones is Ruth Bader Ginsburg in #OnTheBasisOfSex, featuring the new original song by Kesha, “Here Comes The Change.” The film tells an inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she teams with her husband

John Glenn, NASA astronaut, U.S. Senator and the first American to orbit the planet, died on December 8, 2016 at the age of 95. Senator John Glenn, an american hero and role model for young americans who admire the work of NASA and would like to make a career of space exploration, was the first amer...

Believer follows Mormon Dan Reynolds, frontman for the Grammy Award-winning band Imagine Dragons, as he takes on a new mission to explore how the Mormon Church deals with homosexuality. “I just want to take this moment,” began Dan Reynolds at the Billboard Music Awards, “to say there are still 34 s

Olga Costa was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1913, at the outset of World War I. Her parents, Jacobo Kostakowsky and Ana Falvisant Bovglarevokeylandel, were immigrants who had fled czarist Russia to escape persecution of the Jews. Costa and her younger sister Lya were raised in Berlin, where their fat...

Resentful at the world, 15-year-old Aristotle Mendoza wants to blend in and be left alone but the summer he meets free spirit Dante Quintana at the local swimming pool, everything changes. Their summer of adventure comes to an abrupt halt when the boys are torn apart. Armed with a new perspective, A

Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), a wealthy student from Santa Barbara, California, has known since age seven that he's going to be President of the United States. But first he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: Saint Sebastian High School. To get elected Student Body Pres...

Edie Windsor didn’t set out to blaze a legal trail, but she ended up a hero to the gay rights movement in a landmark legal battle that went to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In this thirteen installment of contemporary and ballet male dancers we present a special performance of "Dying Swans" by US Derek Dunn and Canadian Shale Wagman, choreographed by Juliano Nunes from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Juliano also performs in a film segment "Movement" by James Vernon. We con