The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act was introduced by more than 200 House Democrats ahead of the anniversary of ...

Former DC First Lady Cora Masters Barry is the founder and CEO of The Southeast Tennis and Learning Center (SETLC). She ...

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

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

Black leaders grapple with progress being undone by a series of court rulings, state laws, and Donald Trump's targeting of ...

Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the ...

Assaults on our democracy are not new, but thanks to those brave foot soldiers 60 years ago we have the tools to fight them.

On March 7, 1965, a pivotal moment in American history unfolded as Black civil rights activists faced brutal violence while ...

Bloody Sunday, on March 7, 1965, became a pivotal moment in the US civil rights movement, igniting nationwide support that ...

The atrocity of “Bloody Sunday” helped move public sentiment, and eventually helped bring about the passage of the landmark ...

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

Andrew Young remembers a surreal national moment when ABC News interrupted its Sunday night airing of the movie “Judgment at Nuremberg,” which explored the bigotry, war crimes and complacency of ...