The father of Detroit Lions wideout Amon-Ra St. Brown made waves online while discussing his sons’ personal lives, ...

Amon-Ra St. Brown's father John made some racist comments recently regarding breeding athletic children. John Brown is the father of Amon-Ra and ...

Of the day following John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859 — now understood by scholars and schoolchildren alike to be one of the precipitating events of the ...

150 years ago Wednesday, John Brown was executed for crimes against his country. Now the federal government is honoring him with portraits in the National Archive. 150 years ago Wednesday, John Brown ...

John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights By David S. Reynolds Knopf, 578 pages, $35 In May 1863, the soldiers of the African-American ...

“You can weigh John Brown’s body well enough, but how and in what balance weigh John Brown?” poet Stephen Vincent Benet wrote in 1928. These words, which greet visitors entering the John Brown Museum ...

Last Sunday was the 163rd anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, which for me was an excuse to flip through W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1909 biography of Brown for the first time in years.

John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. He would spend the next fifty-nine years moving about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and ...

Originally, John Brown’s son Oliver, and seven other of Brown’s men were buried in an unmarked site near Harper’s Ferry. The body of another son, Watson Brown, was used for study in a ...

John Brown, condemned to death, was to be hanged the 2d of December, (this very day.) Hugo said that "from the political point of view the murder of John Brown would be an irremediable mistake.