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In January 1967, after a gubernatorial election that saw neither candidate gain enough votes to win, the Georgia Legislature was faced with a vital decision: the selection of the state’s 75th governor during the height of the Civil Rights Movement.

Meet the glamorous socialites of 1970s NYC.

Biographer Raymond Arsenault discusses the man who marched with King, then became the conscience of Congress

“I’ve tried ‘em all, I really have,” Susan Sarandon’s character Annie Savoy says in the movie “Bull Durham.” But “the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.”

I was 9 years old when Eric B. and Rakim’s “Paid in Full” dropped. I have vivid memories of the bass-laden track booming out of car stereos and hearing it on Black radio, like Kiss FM’s top eight at 8 p.m. countdown.

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s triumph was his tragedy. Oppenheimer had many achievements in theoretical physics but is remembered as the so-called father of the atomic bomb. Under his directorship, scientists at Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bomb was designed and built, forever changed how people view the world, adding a new…

Princess Margaret offended the Old Hollywood elite at an exclusive dinner during her 1965 tour of the US - but it wasn't the only time

The Tate–LaBianca murders came at a time of great turmoil in the US and Charles Manson hoped they would kick off a race war. His apocalyptic vision was named 'Helter Skelter' after the Beatles' song

Elvis and Priscilla Presley tied the knot in 1967 when the singer was 32 and his wife was 21, but it seems Priscilla wasn't a big fan of her wedding dress

The war in Sudan between two rival generals for control of the country is devastating in so many ways. Hundreds of civilians have been killed, thousands injured and more than 1 million people are now homeless. The fighting is even wreaking havoc on the country’s central bank.

Throughout his celebrated life, Jim Brown was both praised for his community activism and vilified for his abuse of women.