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.

Barbara Franklin, whom President Richard Nixon appointed in 1971 to spearhead an effort to bring more women into high-level ...

An emotional gathering will be held in Harlem on Wednesday as long-time civil rights champion Dr. Hazel Dukes is laid to rest during her funeral. Former Secretary of ...

Trump addressed a joint session of Congress last week, and it was the kind of spectacle you would expect it to be: Trump was up there giving a more or less standard rally speech.

This Sunday leaders from throughout Alabama and the entire country will commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March and the infamous Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus ...

Decades after law officers attacked voting rights marchers, we revisit the event that helped spark passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and hear what civil rights activists are doing in Selma today.

Selma showed the world that change doesn’t come from waiting — it comes from marching, from pushing, from refusing to be ...

Sixty years ago today, civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of voting rights activists over the Edmund Pettus Bridge ...

They fed, protected and housed activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights.

As President Donald Trump and administration officials are preparing to tear down swaths of the Department of Education, they ...

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C., serves as the headquarters for the U.S.