A major case now before the U.S. Supreme Court has some fearing that this year's anniversary of the Voting Rights Act may be ...

We cannot deny our ugly history with racial discrimination in this country, especially as it pertains to access to the ...

Then-Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) was running for re-election and faced a primary challenge from a wealthy rancher and oilman. A nonprofit conservative group published materials that recommended ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to an immediate wave of Black voter participation. 60 years later, that participation is under threat.

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) -August 6th, 1965 symbolizes a significant turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. That was day President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the voting rights act into law securing ...

Come 2028, Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy might be a very lucky man. In the presidential primary era, four non-incumbent Democratic nominees became president: Jimmy Carter (1976), Bill Clinton ...

P roposed by then-Senator Lyndon Johnson, the amendment entered the Internal Revenue Code as a provision of law in 1954. It says that charitable organizations may be exempt from federal taxes if ...

Then-Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) was running for re-election and faced a primary challenge from a wealthy rancher and oilman. A nonprofit conservative group published materials that recommended ...

As historian Randall Balmer notes in a forthcoming book on church-state separation, while up for reelection in 1954, Senator Lyndon Johnson faced fierce “McCarthy-like attacks” from right-wing ...

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 27 Aug 1908 - 22 Jan 1973 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 30 Jan 1882 - 12 Apr 1945 Harry S. Truman, 8 May 1884 - 26 Dec 1972 Dwight David Eisenhower, 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 John ...