An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in the 1960s calling for Black voting rights has been ...

Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin ...

Museums across the U.S. are displaying artifacts that represent and reflect landmark events of the Civil Rights era. Visitors ...

Members of First Baptist Church on Martin Luther King Street, the first Black Baptist Church in Selma and one of the first ...

Sixty years ago today – August 6, 1965 – President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965, giving a ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

The Trump administration recently released a cache of classified files on the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in ...

Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the ...

When 1965 began, federal voting rights legislation was far from the minds of most in Washington. After all, Congress had just ...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) blew up at fellow Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) in a ...

US President Donald Trump announces a $200M White House renovation, including a grand ballroom to replace the East Wing and expand event capacity.

As the anniversary of King's immortal speech on the National Mall approaches, it's on us to pursue his vision for America.