The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

A Durham woman and UNC-Chapel Hill graduate was the third soldier to die when a Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on ...

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From science to engineering, writing to social sciences, here are the Columbians who received awards recently.

Cecile Richards, a national leader for women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died.

U2 singer Bono is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 4. Tom Brenner/Getty Share I write to comment on the continuing ...

President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction to Pope ... from President Barack Obama in 2017. Other recipients include Pope John Paul II and Colin L.

Joe Biden has awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom and praised him as the ... Although Mr Biden has recently announced a number of recipients of the award, including the ...

A Politico columnist criticized President Biden for his final choice of Medal of Freedom recipients ... another political battleground. "The Presidential Medal of Freedom award is the nation's ...

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when President Joe Biden — who was supposed to restore the old-time virtues of the presidency — announced his own final roster of winners for the Medal of Freedom and the Presidential Citizens ...

Given to “good people who have made extraordinary contributions to their country and the world,” the Presidential Medal of Freedom was first awarded in 1963, with past recipients including ...