This week marks the 61st anniversary of one of the most disturbing protests of the Civil Rights Movement. The 1965 Selma ...

Today, the SPLC and the nation mourn the loss of civil rights and voting rights activist Bernard LaFayette. He was 85.

The event marked the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the most violent day of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march for the ...

The annual wreath-laying ceremony in Montgomery honored Civil Rights martyrs and the late John Lewis 61 years after Bloody ...

The first Black Women’s Rights Convention is held in Akron, Ohio. The keynote speaker was anti-slavery activist Sojourner Truth. 1966—Constance Baker Motley be­comes the first African American woman ...

This biography allows the reader to step into the mind of the nineteenth-century senator who saw in the Constitution, when ...

From the outset, “Edward L. Blackshear at Prairie View,” a new book by John A. Adams Jr. (Texas A&M University Press), answers a question that had lodged in the back of my mind for decades: Who was ...

The American history of voting rights demonstrates that rights granted by the state are fragile and can be revoked by legislation and judicial decree, proving that true rights are inherent to ...

The major fighting of the Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, with the Union victory at the Battle of Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Sen. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights leader, minister, and politician, who was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and in the 1980s reshaped Democratic politics with two galvanizing ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights icon who battled alongside Martin Luther King Jr., negotiated global hostage releases, and shamed corporations for their lack of corporate diversity and ...