“Black Louisianans deserve fair representation. The fight for racial justice and equality is far from over,” vowed one civil rights group. Civil rights advocates on Tuesday decried the U.S. Supreme Court’s reinstatement of Louisiana’s Republican-drawn congressional map, which a federal judge said will cause “irreparable harm” to Black voters in the 2022 midterm elections and likely […]
Martin Luther King Jr., a man who embodied the U.S. civil rights movement, was assassinated more than 50 years ago on April 4, 1968. Here are some key facts about his life. Early life Martin Luther King Jr. was born Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the son of Martin Luther King Sr., […]
“Fighting a pandemic is already a high hurdle to clear in obtaining an accurate count. It’s outrageous that we must also fight against an administration seeking to skew our population numbers.” Civil rights organizations and local governments in California late Friday filed a request in a San Jose federal court for an emergency nationwide […]
The body of the late U.S. congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis returned to Washington on Monday, where it will lie in state as lawmakers and the public pay their last respects to Lewis’ life-long efforts to promote civil rights. Lewis died last week at the age of 80 after a yearlong […]