President Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote isn’t that far from Jim Crow-era literacy tests, says Bea ...

(AP Photo, File) FILE - Selma civil rights foot soldier Charles Mauldin introduces President Joe Biden to speak near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 5, 2023, during an event ...

More than a week after Rep. Green was censured for interrupting Trump's address, the lingering question is: Why didn’t ...

There are a handful of photographs of Jesse Jackson that capture not only his unique place in history but that also encapsulate the American story of race, injustice and hope.

Texas, for his rude — and loud — antics during President Donald Trump’s address to Congress seems appropriate, unless you know a little ...

A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political icon. But above all, he’s a Southerner.

(THE CONVERSATION) Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma ... today,” said Barack Obama in 2007.

Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and his greying head bowed in prayer.

In 2015, then-President Barack Obama spoke in Selma for the 50th anniversary of ... attacked a group of peaceful civil rights protesters crossing Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. The ...