Stephen Franklin

When Henoc Moukoulou first saw the images of people fleeing the World Trade Center, he was transported back to 1998 in Congo, when he and his mother ran through the...

Osama bin Laden is most often seen posing as a fearless guerrilla. But the image, terrorism experts say, is more facade than fact. The Saudi national, whose extremist organization has...

Whenever Carmen Hacht peels potatoes or writes for a while, she will stop and shake her hands until the tingling vanishes and her hands feel normal again. Her problems began...

Up and down the picket line, as they handed out hot dogs and pop, the talk was about overcoming the strike jitters, and Cesar Sanchez was in synch with the...

One Sunday morning during the 1988 presidential race, Rev. Jesse Jackson stood before a black Baptist congregation in Mobile, Ala. Midway through a sermon on sin and redemption, virtue and...

Claiming the voting system in Illinois discriminates against minorities, the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday seeking to end punch card ballots in...

Imagine putting hard-earned money in the mail to buy something sight unseen. That seemed mighty risky and very foolhardy in 1872. But Aaron Montgomery Ward, a gutsy traveling salesman with...

Once, the Chicago Truck Drivers Union fervently clung to its independence, going it alone in a world of giant unions. But tough times in the trucking industry have taken a...

In the rehabilitation facility's crowded ward, Ziyad al Samara grimaces and shifts uncomfortably in his bed. A metal brace runs down his right leg, where an Israeli soldier's bullet tore...