Fifty or more Syracusans, led by Father Charles Brady, took real risks to make our society more just, says the letter writer.

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

Established in 1984 and signed into law by Ronald Reagan, its mission as a “nonpartisan, independent organization” is to ...

Sixty years after John Lewis and hundreds of civil rights activists were beaten by the Alabama State Police, thousands ...

A vote on the SAVE Act, ostensibly aimed at preventing undocumented immigrants from voting, could come by the end of this month.

Protesters were tear gassed and beaten. A young man named John Lewis suffered a fractured skull. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis and others, the protestors returned later that month and ...

Her photo, beaten and bloody, became a galvanizing ... James Clyburn (D, S.C.-06) and all of his Democrat colleagues introduced the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore ...

A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist—who orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington—opens at the National ...

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Discover how the brutal treatment of Black citizens in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act and shaped American history.

(WIB) – Although many freedom fighters and faith leaders make the yearly March pilgrimage to Selma, Alabama in commemoration of the hundreds of civil rights activists injured by police on March 7, ...