Fifty years ago Monday, Columbia University students angry about racism and the Vietnam War began a rebellion that fed a sense the country was in turmoil. Starting at noon on April 23, 1968, student ...

The student demonstrations that have rocked Senegal in recent weeks recall the short-lived but intense unrest which sprung out of the countrys universities half a century ago, almost bringing down the ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On Oct. 16, 1968, American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos delivered one of the most powerful and controversial protests in Olympic history during the 1968 Summer Games in ...

Background: In 1989, around the time of the Tiananmen Square protests in China, pro-democracy demonstrators overthrew a string of Soviet bloc communist dictatorships in a matter of months through ...