Community activist Louis Beverly was arrested on February 23, 2009, after he broke into a foreclosed home in Baltimore, Maryland, in protest over the ongoing U.S. mortgage crisis. Beverly ...

Enric Duran, who also goes by the alias Robin Banks, spent two years acquiring loans from banks in Spain before making declaring that he would not repay the debts and ...

Muqtada al-Sadr is a strongly anti-American Shi'ite Cleric in Iraq and leader of the Mahdi Army. al-Sadr lacks the education and degrees typically required of Shia clerics and instead ...

Private Schools have been a huge part of the nation's education system since they first started appearing in the sixteenth century. They provide a more isolated and focused ...

Dr. James Hansen is the chief climate scientist for NASA and the director of its Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In 1988, Hansen testified before Congress that he felt climate ...

Keith Ellison is a Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota, the first African-American elected to Congress from Minnesota, and the first Muslim-American ever elected to ...

On the Line is an Academy Award nominated documentary that examines the nonviolent movement to close the School of the Americas, a U.S. Army school that trains Latin American ...

The First Intifada was a mass uprising of Palestinians against Israel in occupied territories. It began in Palestinian Refugee camps and developed quickly in The West Bank, Gaza Strip, and ...