Lawsuit challenges Missouri voting aid restrictions
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Civil rights activists sued Missouri on Wednesday over a decades-old law that prohibits volunteers from offering…
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Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home
On July 2, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. stood behind President Lyndon Baines Johnson as the Texan signed into law the…
Conservative groups target states’, local voter registration rolls
North Carolina’s voter rolls are like a refrigerator that needs to be cleared periodically of rotting milk and other items…
DOJ civil rights official urges Congress to act soon on voting rights
WASHINGTON — A top Justice Department official stressed on Monday the need for Congress to pass legislation named after the late…
Revamped voting rights bill planned, named for the late John Lewis
WASHINGTON — House Democrats plan to present next week a new version of legislation named after the late Georgia civil…
Biden calls for concerted effort to fight assaults on voting rights
PHILADELPHIA — Returning to the state that handed him the White House, President Joe Biden made a passionate plea Tuesday for Americans…
Missouri lawmakers close to approving bill targeting protesters who block traffic
A push to crack down on protesters who block roads, to penalize cities that cut police budgets and to bolster…
John Lewis, civil rights icon and Congressman, dies at 80
ATLANTA (AP) — Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state…