When you think about Black History Month, several figures likely come to mind, with Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass ...

Rochester, New York, is widely known as the gateway to the Finger Lakes region or the perfect stopover on a road trip to ...

There’s too much lore, too many feelings, too much to celebrate and far too much to complain about. Yet like “SNL” itself, ...

She was like my little ray of sunshine,” one Rochester mother said. “My little light.” Loved ones of two slain women look for ...

Some people enjoy constructing five-a-side teams from players born on their own birthday ... with another son-of-a-famous-player, Andy Todd, adding four red cards to the September 21 roll call ...

Eugene Levy’s trademark eyebrows fly off for Little Caesars. A tongue dances to Shania Twain to promote Nestle’s Coffee Mate ...

One criterion for being recognized as a protected class under the equal protection clause of the Constitution is that a group must have a demonstrated history of legal discrimination, so it is ...

This week on Voices of Disability Pride, we feature disability rights activist Julie Farrar. We discuss the importance of mentorship, confidence and connection in self-advocacy and activism.

He was also a famous abolitionist. Born into slavery, he escaped at age 20 to New York in September 1838 ... continuing enslavement of millions of people. Douglass argued independence meant ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Marianne Faithfull ... “One of the hazards of reforming your evil ways is that some people won’t let go of their mind’s eye of you as a wild thing,” she wrote in “Memories, Dreams and ...

"A lot of people tell me ‘your mom sang at my ... Nelson earned a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and both master's and doctoral degrees in vocal ...

If he had been born a minor noble scrounging for influence ... Jamelle Bouie became a New York Times Opinion columnist in 2019. Before that he was the chief political correspondent for Slate ...