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

Republican-backed funding cuts go way beyond NPR and PBS. Radio and TV stations from Alaska to the Allegheny Mountains may ...

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 ...

Gov. JB Pritzker in Springfield on Aug. 6 called the Texas House Democrats who fled the state for Illinois to thwart a Republican quorum to vote on a controversial congressional redistricting plan ...

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 ...

On Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most consequential victories in ...

Democrats and Republicans alike are talking a big game about the quorum break and its consequences while awaiting the most ...

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

Happy 64th birthday (Aug. 4) to the 44th president, Barack Obama. Effortlessly cool, the first Black president proved a soaring speaker up there with John F. Kennedy, and the bringer of the Affordable ...