The girl who would later take on the pen name Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind of investigative journalism was born ... prominence as a writer for black church newspapers, Wells took part ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Defenders of Confederate monuments have argued that the statues should be left ...

As The 19th celebrates this milestone, we’re looking ahead to the next five years and launching an endowment campaign aimed ...