John F. Kennedy

The logo for the Democratic National Convention is displayed at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., ahead of the Aug. 19-22, 2024, event. Scott...

Black demonstrators walk to work during the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in February 1956. Don Cravens/Getty Images by Kevin A. Young, UMass Amherst Signed into...

 For those who were born after the President John F. Kennedy's assassination 50 years ago, it might be hard to imagine just how heartbroken...

There is as much myth as there is fact surrounding John F. Kennedy’s, one of the history’s most beloved U.S. presidents. In fact...

On May 27, 1968, Kennedy gave a radio interview to “Voice Of America,” the largest U.S. international broadcaster, when he was the Attorney General in his brother’s, President y’s, administration. During his interview, as he pointed out all of the imperfections in America’s fabric regarding equal rights for Blacks, did he in fact make a bold proclamation[1] that he envisioned an African American occupying the same Oval Office that his brother once did? Kennedy (aka Bobby or R.F.K.) was a powerful ally to the Black community, because he helped to invoke change in his reign as Attorney General during the Civil Rights era. In the fall of 1962, Kennedy sent thousands of federal troops to Oxford, Miss., to enforce a U.S. Supreme Court ...