They gathered under the neon sign of the Portland Rescue Mission on West Burnside before the rain began to fall Wednesday night — a few hundred men and women with weathered faces, wearing heavy coats and dragging their possessions in garbage bags.
They shuffled in and sat on hard plastic chairs as the staff and volunteers [...]

The questions could have stopped her quest for citizenship cold.
“Have you ever tried to topple the government of another country?” Answer: “Yes.”
“Have you ever been in prison?” Answer: “Yes.”
But in the case of Diet Eman, her answers to a citizenship examiner deserve further explanation.
A member of the Dutch underground, Eman resisted the Nazi occupation of [...]

When Dan was profiled on “World News” a few months ago, he described the horrors of seeing his best friend shot dead near his Baghdad high school. Now the baby-faced 18-year-old is starting a new life in the United States — in a place that couldn’t be more different than Baghdad: a college in rural [...]

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted for violating anti-segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama last month
1956: US court victory for black students
The United States Supreme Court has upheld a ban on racial segregation in state schools, colleges and universities.
The University of North Carolina was appealing against an earlier ruling, in 1954, which ordered college officials to admit three [...]