What those patriotic Americans showed us is that ours is a government of the people where everyday Americans can stand up and ...

Advocates are seizing the moment to call for change, urging Congress not to “get back in the city management business” before ...

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

How the brutal treatment of Black citizens in Selma, Alabama in 1965 led to the creation of the Voting Rights Act, a pivotal ...

Discover how the brutal treatment of Black citizens in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act and shaped American history.

A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political ...

The Rev. Joe Carter was the first African American since 1902 to register to vote in West Feliciana Parish in 1963, but he ...

Bloody Sunday, thousands gather in Selma to honor a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement. Credits: @erniesuggs / AJC | Getty Images | AP ...

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...

Everyone who voted for the bill was Republican ... some include the category in their interpretation of civil rights codes. Casey wasn’t aware of similar legislation outside Iowa but said ...

Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...