The NAACP's Black Policy Agenda highlights the pressing concerns of Black Americans ranging from health care and voting rights to police reform.
The legislation undermines GOP efforts to decrease access to the ballot.
These voting rights champions are keeping John Lewis' tradition alive after his death.
The late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis will be honored with a U.S. Postal Service stamp.
Now two years later, amid attacks on Democracy and the rolling back of rights both men fought for, there is strength in remembering their words and work.
Black voters are all dressed up with nowhere to go as the normalization of thinly veiled white power fascism becomes unbearable. The divide is not political, it’s moral.
Civil rights leaders expressed disappointment at the U.S. Senate's failure to advance key voting rights legislation and change the filibuster rule, but they were also resolute in their will to keep fighting for equal and fair elections in a crucial election year.
Harris' remarks, couched in the civil rights movement's legacy, push back on the idea that people can wait for a better time to pass voting rights legislation.
Biden's challenge Tuesday wasn't just to Senate holdouts, but for those who are waiting for some return to civility that has never existed for Black and other communities of color.
Some of the leading advocates who have long sounded the alarm about the urgency for Congress to advance any bills on voting rights are skipping Biden's speech in Atlanta about voting rights, suggesting the president's words are too little, too late.
Former first lady Michelle Obama is kicking off the new year with a message urging Americans to help fight back against voter suppression ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
The president's comments Friday reflect a significant turn from early remarks such as telling people they will have to out-organize voter suppression yet again.