On March 15, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson urged Congress to pass sweeping voting rights legislation, telling lawmakers ...

Thirty-five students from four high schools in Atlanta spent the last three days traveling through Alabama as part of the annual John Lewis Student Civil Rights Pilgrimage.

Some Republicans, just like Democrats in 2022, are eager to change the Senate’s rules in an effort to pass a national ...

Why hint a presidential bid in Selma by participating in the annual crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge for voting rights?

Why hint a presidential bid in Selma by participating in the annual crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge for voting rights? Actually, why not?

Sixty-one years ago this month, Alabama state troopers attacked civil rights marchers on. On March 7, 1965, the world looked on in horror as activists were bloodied because they were marching for ...

The Town of Mount Pleasant has settled a lawsuit under New York’s new Voting Rights Act, agreeing to change how its town ...

John Lewis was just 25 years old when he helped lead a peaceful march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama — and was brutally beaten by state troopers. Struck in the head and left ...

Rep. James E. Clyburn is the go-to for both reassurance and resolve. That makes sense, since the South Carolina Democrat is a student of history — and has lived it. He chronicles some of the country’s ...

Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns ...

A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom ...

AG Brown joined civil rights leaders and elected officials in Selma this weekend to commemorate the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday ...