The two democratic lawmakers promised to file the legislation last week after President Donald Trump’s administration put a historic Alabama civil rights landmark up for sale. On March 4, the ...

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

Many of the federal Supreme Court’s worst rulings are justified by the 14th Amendment – everything from anchor ...

The 36 million who watched President Donald Trump's address to Congress also watched as Congressional Black Caucus member, ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

Modern day civil rights activists are working to fight poverty and violence in the city that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago.

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 ...

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

The historic city of Selma, Alabama, is preparing to welcome thousands of visitors for the 60th anniversary commemoration of “Bloody Sunday” and the subsequent Selma-to-Montgomery ...

This Sunday, leaders from throughout Alabama and the entire country will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Selma to ...

cajoling President Lyndon Johnson to use his legendary legislative prowess and power to pass this monumental 1964 Civil ...