Jackson finished second in the Democratic primary to Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who would go on to lose the 1988 presidential election to George H.W. Bush. But Jackson’s strong results ...

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Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, 600 marchers protesting for voting equality left the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma ...

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The Alabama portion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail leads the nation in the number of civil rights heritage sites and in how ...

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David Greenberg has produced a biography of John Lewis that, if not quite definitive, is still the gold standard by which all ...

As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a racially charged Louisiana voting rights case last month, down on its ground floor ...

Mary McBride-Lee, whom President Barack Obama recognized for her work during the civil rights movement, wrote "At the Foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge." 7 charged in 2024 Pennsylvania voter ...

Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown says a coalition is rising up against Trump's MAGA agenda and that "now is the ...

TheGrio takes a closer look into the aftermath of the 2024 election and why Black women remain optimistic in the MAGA era of ...