From May to November of 1961 more than 400 young activists, Black and white, boarded interstate buses headed for cities.

After losing his job as a line cook at a New York City restaurant, Pablo Batista threw himself into the stock market.

A Brazilian asylum seeker fights to be reunited with her nine-year-old son after being separated when entering the US.

When Kathrine Switzer entered the Boston Marathon in 1967, a race official tried to drag her off the course.

Revolutionary university programme aims to change prospects of ex-prisoners and public attitude to their rehabilitation.

Governor of tiny US state says it’s time to see addiction as health problem, rather than criminal, as use soars.

Cultural shift within New York police department credited for the latest record-low murder rate.

Fiordeliza Matos tells us of a complex identity on a divided island.