Freedom means different things to different people. But Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization that releases an annual report on freedom around the world, measures it in terms of civil ...

I visited Dublin in the midst of my search for freedom from an old life. At the time, I did not know that I would soon decide to couch-surf around the world. I was just looking to get out of New York ...

As the nation celebrates Independence Day, we check in with places named Freedom. There are at least 15 Freedom towns, villages and boroughs from Maine to California. Some are too small to host their ...

It’s by far the most resonant word in the American political discourse—and for decades, Democrats let Republicans own it. No longer. Let’s talk about freedom—because Kamala Harris certainly is, ...

There is paradox in the Christian understanding of what it means to be free. No single word resonates with Americans and millions of others quite like freedom. A television commercial announces that ...

Kamala Harris' first 2024 presidential campaign video makes a statement, and uses a Beyoncé song to help. The video features Beyoncé's 2016 song "Freedom" to reinforce Harris' stance and values as the ...

Sixty years ago, over 40 Freedom Schools opened their doors to all children in the state of Mississippi. Iterations of “freedom schooling”—clandestine or fugitive learning by and for Black communities ...

Five years ago, in a crowded room at the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee — a now-85-year-old education and organizing center for activists, occasionally called the epicenter of ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans ...