Thousands shut down Chicago streets at ALEC meeting
The demonstrators say ALEC is hurting just about everyone in America who is not part of the top one percent.
Enshrine voting right in the Constitution
On August 5, 48 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, announcing, "This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless."
Attorney General launches new voting rights battle
The Justice Department is opening a new front in the battle for voting rights in response to a Supreme Court ruling that dealt a major setback to voter protections.
Jailed for justice at July 8th’s Moral Monday
Over 4,000 North Carolinians came together during the first day of the workweek to protest and participate in acts of civil disobedience.
Huge crowd pledges to fight for MLK's 'Dream'
Fifty years after Dr. King first gave his "I Have a Dream Speech" to 100,000 in this city, a diverse sea of people again flooded a two-mile stretch of Woodward Ave, Detroit's main thoroughfare.
End of slavery celebrated on June 19
Texans, and an increasing number of people across America, celebrate the end of slavery on June 19 because on that day in 1865 Gen. Gordon Granger announced that slavery was ended for good.
What is the future for voting rights in America? Let’s discuss
What is the future for voting rights in America? Join us for a teleconference conversation with Jarvis Tyner, July 16.
Today in women's history: Minnie Fisher Cunningham born
Cunningham was elected president of the Galveston Equal Suffrage Association and toured her home state to speak out for the right for women to vote.
Today in women's history: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony died
On March 13, 1906, Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester, N.Y., shortly after her eighty-sixth birthday.She was a pioneer leader of the cause of women's right to vote.,
Today in women's history: International Women's Day
March 8, International Women's Day, grew from two sources -- the struggle of working women to form trade unions and the fight for women's right to vote.
