Discover Barack Obama's journey from community organizer to first African American US President. Legacy and impact.

It is the 60th anniversary of Selma. A march across the town’s chunky ... the minister when he delivered his American Promise speech to congress on March 15th, at once fiery and mournful.

Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for "crude and hurtful" remarks he made about Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama after an interview with a Fox News correspondent. The remarks came ...

Throughout March of 1965, a group of demonstrators faced violence as they attempted to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand the right to vote for black people. One of the ...

In 2015, President Barack Obama marked the 50th anniversary of the march by delivering a speech at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. It is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Selma to ...

Bloody Sunday, civil rights activists warn that the right to vote is in peril due to political attacks and restrictive laws.

You do not want to play from behind against Kansas City, and you don’t want to be in a position where you’ve got to ...

The Democratic rebuttal to President Donald Trump's speech before Congress came from Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a first-term ...

While conservative House Republicans have in the past dug in and opposed such spending bills, forcing Mr. Johnson to rely on ...

Barack Obama delivers a speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images) It goes ...