Alcatraz Island, home to the nation’s most notorious pen, was the site of a crucial civil rights battle 50 years ago. Shutterstock Fifty years ago this November, a group of Native American ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner ...

The future of Alcatraz lies in one man’s hands ... of a 19-month occupation by Indigenous activists in the name of Native American civil rights. Armed with a combination of hand-held cameras ...

In 1963, Attorney General Robert Kennedy announced Alcatraz would close. The island leapt back into headlines when Native American activists, protesting unjust treatment of native peoples ...