Joe Biden delivered remarks Sunday from Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, becoming the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday sermon fr…
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The family of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday demanded the Senate pass voting rights legislation and said lawmakers who truly honor the late …
Civil rights leader Timuel Black died Wednesday at the age of 102, according to a statement from the University of Chicago where he obtained a…
The images � men on horseback with long reins, corralling Haitian asylum seekers trying to cross into the U.S. from Mexico � provoked an outcry. But Haitian Americans, Black immigrant advocates and civil rights leaders say it’s just the latest in a long history of discriminatory U.S. policies and of indignities faced by Black people.
CHICAGO (AP) � The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19. The famed 79-year-old civil rights leader is vaccinated against the virus and publicly received his first dose in January. According to a statement released Saturday evening, the Jacksons are being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) � St. Louis County’s top prosecutor will not charge the former police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, a dramatic decision that could reopen old wounds amid a renewed and intense national conversation about racial injustice and the police treatment of minorities. Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell announced the decision Thursday after quietly