By Bianca Flowers CHICAGO, July 15 (Chicago) - Civil rights leaders have announced plans for a Washington march next month to ...

The event brought faith leaders, congresspeople and human rights advocates together in Washington, D.C.

A group of civil rights leaders has announced a new March on Washington to fight for voting rights.

In a speech before he signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the landmark civil rights law, "Today we strike away the last major shackle…the Negro story and ...

Every generation is given its own bridge to cross.' Annual march in U.S. Rep. John Lewis' honor held in downtown Nashville ...

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On a humid May morning in Selma, Alabama, thousands of people filled the streets — an echo of 1965, driven by a new threat: a Supreme Court steadily dismantling the Voting Rights Act that marchers ...

Georgia officials and voting rights advocates pushed back after President Trump repeated false and misleading claims about election integrity.

Opinion: The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act isn’t the blow to civil rights that critics have framed it as, ...

To run for office in New York, you must play pickleball with the guy they call Zohran the Man and be able to wear a yarmulke, ...

In 1965, there were only six Black lawmakers in the U.S. House and none in the Senate. There are now 60 Black voting members in the House (plus two nonvoting delegates) and five in the Senate. But ...

For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the civil-rights-era vision that the government has an obligation to remedy and ...