Clay Risen

His song “The Distance,” released in 1996, became an anthem for the disaffected members of Generation X.

The role, one of his first, made him a household name and a film idol of the anti-establishment 1970s. But it also limited his growth as an actor.

A new report paints a grim financial picture of Uncle Nearest, a high-profile brand named for an enslaved distiller. But its founder disputes the findings.

One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier than historians had thought.

He and Steven Z. Meyers opened their first low-cost legal clinic in 1972. Within a decade, they had revolutionized the legal industry, and Jacoby & Meyers had become a widely known brand.

He was best known for his long-running collaboration with Alan Jackson and their signature hit, “Chattahoochee.”

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand.

A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse is seen as a warning.

His first feature-length movie, in 1971, was called his country’s “Stonewall moment,” for jump-starting a gay-rights movement. He became a leading voice of it.

She was a white actress, he was a popular Black entertainer, and their relationship elicited racist reactions in 1960, including from John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign.

The bourbon giant is closing its flagship distilling operation for all of 2026.

Thanks to his eclectic style and tireless touring, he was among the most influential artists in the early days of Americana and alt-country music.

An award-winning poet and writer of fiction, she moonlighted as a competitive horsewoman and owned a horse farm outside Columbia, S.C.

Influential up and down the Eastern Seaboard, he was part of a long tradition among Black clergy of fighting bias and getting out the vote. “No vote, no clout,” he’d say.