Moses Wright's testimony in the trial of his great-nephew's accused killers would go down in history as one of the bravest moments of the Civil Rights Movement. Moses and his wife Elizabeth lived in a ...

Mr. Barkan, a novelist, is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. When I was 22 and working at a local newspaper in Queens, I opened up “The Power Broker” for the first time. I sat in ...

Elie Wiesel describes Moses as “the loneliest” character in the Bible. Moses is the ruler of an unruly bunch of former slaves, as well as a prophet and lawgiver, and, for a short time, the High Priest ...

Saved from a watery death by Pharaoh’s daughter and raised among Egyptian royalty, Moses would not have seemed to be a candidate for freeing the Hebrews from Egyptian slavery. God’s designs are not, ...

It’s been 50 years since the publication of The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s magisterial biography of New York City master builder Robert Moses. Indeed, The Power Broker is a spellbinding biography ...

“We are in the presence of a lot of Moseses,” Barack Obama said on March 4, 2007, three weeks after announcing his candidacy for President. He was speaking in Selma, Ala., surrounded by civil rights ...

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve ...

Psychedelic cocktail may explain burning bush and Ten Commandments. JERUSALEM, March 5, 2008 — -- Moses and the Israelites were on drugs, says Benny Shanon, an Israeli professor of cognitive ...

Carvings in a turquoise mine from around 1800 BC appear to mention a wise man named Moses. But scholars are skeptical that it’s the Biblical prophet. Moses with the Tablets of the Law (oil on canvas) ...