With a nod to America's civil rights legacy, Sen. Cory Booker makes a mark of his own
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking ...
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A civil rights leader's family airs its dirty laundry on Broadway in 'Purpose'
Jenkins, now on Broadway under the direction of longtime actress Phylicia Rashad, explores the generational conflicts in the ...
The Rollback of the Civil-Rights Movement Is the Singular Moral Failure of Modern American Conservatism
Almost from the time Lyndon Johnson handed Dr. King the pen with which h’d signed the CRA in 1964, the Republican Party determined to derive political benefits from attaching itself to the angry ...
Civil Rights Movement Memphis women, Smith, Walk and Crenshaw, made a difference | Opinion
Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a ...
Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undue hard-won gains
President Donald Trump has reopened a debate in the fight over the federal government’s role in education policy after ...
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Voting Rights Act at 60: Congress Could Hit New Low with SAVE Act
The new legislation would require American citizens to produce documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to ...
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Fred Gray represented MLK and Rosa Parks. Now he's calling for a new civil rights movement
Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...
With a nod to America’s civil rights legacy, Senator Cory Booker makes a mark of his own
Throughout his speech Booker read letters from Americans about the impact that Trump’s agenda is having on their lives, ...