The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873. Its subject, Macon Bolling Allen, was admitted to the Maine bar decades earlier as the nation's first Black lawyer. His picture hung at City Hall for several ...

It was not a theft, Hamptons police ruled, but acrimony erupted after a lender decided it could not arrange a loan, but that a painting used as collateral would still need to be sold to cover its ...

George Vaughn, a prominent lawyer from St. Louis, played a pivotal role in reshaping American civil rights through landmark Supreme Court cases in the mid-20th century. Vaughn, ...

We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. One day about 10 ...