Voting rights remain under attack, and voting rights protections, including those created in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, have ...

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Sixty years after John Lewis and hundreds of civil rights activists were beaten by the Alabama State Police, thousands ...

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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 ...