Martin Luther King Jr. once called Chicago the most racist city in America. Here's the long history that proves him right.

While many Americans are taught that the civil rights movement was localized in the South in the 1950s and '60s, the reality is that the struggle was brutal all over the country.

Princess Diana was killed in a car crash while trying to escape paparazzi, but some people think it was no accident.

King Henry VIII lusted after Anne Boleyn for nine years before divorcing his first wife to marry her — then had her executed three years later.

As the civil rights movement brought attention to Black Americans' struggle for equality, whites across the country launched a brutal counter-movement.

When mine owners cut wages in 1870s Pennsylvania, the Molly Maguires fought back. But with a private military on their side, the mine owners ultimately won what would become the first labor war in U.S. history.

Catherine Parr became Queen of England after marrying King Henry VIII in 1543. Luckily, she knew exactly what she was getting herself into.

Before he became a Civil War general, Congressman Dan E. Sickles' scandalous murder trial changed our legal system forever.

It's falsely believed that Jayne Mansfield died when she was beheaded in a fatal 1967 car accident, but the truth is even grislier — and much sadder.

In the 1840s, Dr. James Marion Sims perfected his surgical skills by operating on enslaved black women without anesthesia.

Sam Cooke was shot and killed in what police ruled a "justifiable homicide," but those closest to him called foul play.