Tag: civil rights

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Cori Bush led on Thursday a coalition of Black women members of the U.S. House in…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A judge has approved a request to wipe clean the court record of a Black woman…

NEW YORK (AP) — With Attorney General Merrick Garland looking on, Manhattan’s new U.S. attorney said Friday that he was…

On the final day of the 2021 legislative session in May, Missouri lawmakers passed a “law enforcement bill of rights”…

WASHINGTON — Federal education officials have launched civil rights investigations in five Republican-led states that have prohibited school districts from mandating…

WASHINGTON — A top Justice Department official stressed on Monday the need for Congress to pass  legislation named after the late…

The Progressive National Baptist Convention marked last week the 60th anniversary of its forging in the heat of the civil…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is sending a strong message about its priorities these days. In just over the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that has represented Virginia in the U.S. Capitol for…

At Black churches up and down the U.S., religious slogans have been supplanted with another message in the runup to…

ATLANTA (AP) — A transcript of former President Barack Obama’s address to those present at the funeral service for John…

TROY, Ala. (AP) — Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday — in the rural…

Of all the ways that John Lewis influenced American life and politics, his indelible impact on young people may be…

ATLANTA (AP) — Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Black national anthem was born more than a century ago, but the popular hymn among…

CINCINNATI (AP) — Bob Moses says America is at “a lurching moment” for racial change, potentially as transforming as the…