On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with ...

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Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from ...

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 ...

Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and his greying head bowed in prayer.

Christburg was eight years old when Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to lead hundreds in a march from Selma to ...

walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., for the 50th anniversary of the landmark event of the civil rights movement, Saturday, March […] President Barack Obama, fourth from left ...

The 52-year-old actress - who recently opened up about why singer Robbie Williams cut a date short years earlier - shared photos and videos of her in the ring on Instagram. She trained with Roach ...

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 ...