Voting Rights Act turns 50 - is it on agenda for GOP debate?
With voting rights under fire, GOP candidates have an opportunity to address the need to fix one of the nation's most important statutes.
Medicare turns 50 with vigor in Los Angeles
The slogan of the day was "Medicare: As American as Apple Pie."
Today in history: Hooray for Medicare on its first 50 years!
Happy birthday, Medicare! Celebrations are occurring all over the country.
Government’s case against Rosenbergs gutted by release of key testimony
"It's time for the government to admit that Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy and that Julius was not an atomic spy."
Today in African-American history: Mary McLeod Bethune born in 1875
She organized African American women in the South to vote despite the Jim Crow poll tax and other racist restrictions.
Freedom fighting: also a Southern tradition
Many white people in the South held no one in captivity. Lies and false fear, not ideals, were used to convince them to vote for leaving the Union.
Indigenous news: activism, identity, and honoring natives
On May 26, the town council in Newstead, New York voted to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day.
S. Carolina leaders call for removing Confederate flag from statehouse grounds
The Confederate flag features prominently in photos of the white youth arrested and charged with the murders.
Julius & Ethel's final day: June 19th, 1953
Despite massive, worldwide protests, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed in Sing Sing Prison; on this anniversary, their granddaughter has this message and shares videos.
To Mother Emanuel’s Denmark Vesey: your fight goes on!
Fighting off racist attacks is nothing new for the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.
