The year 2018 brought about seismic change in Ireland, writes Joyce Fegan.

Haitians reacted with outrage to reports that President Donald Trump questioned why the US would accept more immigrants from Haiti and "shithole countries" in Africa.

Hollywood director Oliver Stone wanted a hit - and the chance to put America’s most famous dissadent on screen. The subject wanted veto power. The Russian lawyer wanted someone to option the novel he’d written. The American lawyer just wanted the whole insane project to go away. Somehow the film got made.

John Lewis was a disciple of Martin Luther King and marched on Washington in 1963. Last week, he led a sit-down protest in Congress, says Peniel Joseph

Peniel E Joseph sets last week’s massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in the context of a climate of denial in America over national issues of racial inequality

Daniel Day-Lewis has been named in a list of the best ever Oscar-winning performances in a biopic by Rolling Stone.

Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson shed their inhibitions in the eagerly-anticipated film version of Fifty Shades of Grey, Alfred Molina and John Lithgow play men struggling to keep their relationship together in Love Is Strange.

The lack of a Bafta nomination for Martin Luther King Jr biopic Selma was not a “racist snub”, the head of the academy has said.

The images of Barack Obama urging peace alongside footage of angry protesters shows the yawning gap between substance and symbolism, writes Peniel Joseph

Screen actress Maureen O’Hara has received her first Oscar aged 94.

Author and poet Maya Angelou, who rose from poverty, segregation and violence to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died. She was 86.

Here are some things you may not know about the Academy Awards

The US is struggling to fully realise the vision that civil rights leader Martin Luther King described in his ‘I have a dream’ speech 50 years ago, as the goal of economic security for all remains elusive, President Barack Obama said yesterday.

Martin Luther King Jr made history, with Barack Obama following suit half a century later. How do we compare the president’s legacy to that of the civil rights leader, asks Michael Eric Dyson.

President Obama has led the tributes to Martin Luther King, exactly 50 years since his legendary "I have a dream" speech.

US senator John McCain is backing President Barack Obama’s call for the so-called “stand your ground” laws in Florida and other states to be re-examined in the wake of the George Zimmerman case.

Authenticity is who you are.

APPLE always seemed like the perfect company.

At first the words seemed to trip nonchalantly from the mouth of Walter ‘Clyde’ Frazier, a basketball analyst for whom loquaciousness is a job description.

US President Barack Obama can expect some sweet serenades at his inauguration ceremony, with hit-makers Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson and James Taylor on tap to perform some of the most patriotic songs.

Ten years ago Dan Brown gave us the chance to crack the Da Vinci code but 100 years after its invention many of us are still stumped by the crossword.

Regarding ‘Why we should welcome warships’ (Letters, Sept 9) Anthony Leavy is missing some basic facts.

Four years on, the sad truth is that despite the initial ‘cause for great rejoicing’, Barack Obama has not delivered on his election promises, argues Niall Ferguson

Tweets, texts, emails, posts.

Hugh Jackman and Lee Daniels are working on a movie about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

I have a dream.

A DIRECT-MAIL solicitation for Ron Paul’s political and investment newsletters two decades ago warned of a “coming race war in our big cities” and of a “federal homosexual cover-up” to play down the impact of AIDS.

Tropical storm-force winds from Hurricane Irene have begun lashing the east coast of the US, with the potential to cause billions of dollars in damage.

FOLLOWERS of English football will be alarmed to discover that American Football leans heavily on something called the ‘Rooney Rule’.

Hampton Sides

PRESIDENT Barack Obama entered the pantheon of Nobel Peace Prize winners yesterday with humble words, acknowledging his own few accomplishments while delivering a robust defence of war and promising to use the prestigious award to “reach for the world that ought to be”.

The daughter of the Reverend Martin Luther King has been chosen as the first woman to head the civil rights organisation that he co-founded.

Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the US networks’ golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called “the most trusted man in America”, has died at the age of 92.

US President Barack Obama challenged Iran’s government to halt a “violent and unjust” crackdown on dissenters, using his bluntest language yet to condemn Tehran’s post-election response.

“Together, we will change this country and change the world": This was Barack Obama’s rallying cry to Americans in the closing days of a campaign which saw him become the first black President of the United States.

SHADES of the US South’s racist past came creeping back this week just as the South could be poised to play a pivotal role in electing the nation’s first black president.

Barack Obama launched his strongest attack yet on his Republican rival John McCain as he accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, US political pundits said today.

The American Dream is alive and the US can be better than it has been during the last eight years of President George Bush, Barack Obama said as he accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.

Barack Obama delivered a “misleading” speech which was at odds with his “meagre” record, his Republican rival John McCain’s campaign said today.