Advocates rally in DC against mass firings at US Department of Education
Education advocates, recently fired employees, and supporters are expected to gather Friday morning at the U.S. Department of ...
Michael Peregrine: The legacy of Lyndon Johnson’s ‘We Shall Overcome’ speech persists
On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with ...
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President Trump's attempts to shrink government target civil rights efforts
President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to take steps to comply with ...
Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo
The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, ...
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MORIAL: ‘Bloody Sunday’ Images Struck the Nation’s Conscience 60 Years Ago
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.
Civil rights champion Dr. Hazel Dukes to be laid to rest at funeral
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 ...
Opinion
Trump’s Congressional address revealed Washington’s chaotic divisions
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.
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Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March
The 1964 Civil Rights Bill had just been signed into law ... The entire nation was watching this horrific event on television, including one Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House. The Voting Rights Act ...
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A look at the past — and the future — as Selma marks 60 years since Bloody Sunday
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.