The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights ...

Sixty years ago, during the first six months of 1965, Lyndon Johnson made the decision to Americanize the conflict in Vietnam ...

Also emerging: a fierce response, a defense of voting rights that won an important early victory. How this fight unfolds will ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

King's son said he never thought racism would still be around and on the rise like it is today, as rally-goers urged activism ...

Sixty years on, Lucas will be back on the Boston Common on Saturday to celebrate the anniversary of what became known as the ...

To make the constitutional promises a reality, we needed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 24th Amendment barring poll taxes, the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 ...

We viewed education as a civil rights issue, and there were many reasons to do so. First, states were not to be trusted to provide equal opportunities for quality education. What we observed on ...

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act should more properly be called the Sacrifice American Voter Eligibility Act, as it is likely to negatively affect up to 69 million American women who h ...

Both Republican and Democratic-led states have eased the voting rights restoration process in recent years. But some states have added complexities, such as Tennessee's 2023 change. In Florida ...