The issue of race took center stage in 2015 in old and new ways -- from questions about policing in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Chicago and elsewhere to a gunman's massacre at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Our first black president was judged with every word he said -- and those he didn't. And the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, reminded us that when it comes to race, we've come a long way -- and have far to go. [Source]
Two events -- a Trump rally and a voting rights march -- in the same state on the same day this Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend encapsulated a nation at odds with itself about the future of its democracy.
Women and allies will gather at more than 600 marches across the United States on Saturday in support of reproductive rights, with the largest rally expected in the nation's capital, according to organizers.
When Medgar Evers and Jimmie Lee Jackson were killed amid a yearslong battle for voting rights, it brought a sense of doom and darkness over the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Exactly 57 years after the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, thousands descended on the National Mall to again call for ending police violence, dismantling systemic racism and ensuring access to the ballot box.
Five Democratic presidential contenders will help mark the anniversary of a landmark civil rights march in Alabama on Sunday, the day after strong African-American support powered Joe Biden to a resounding victory in South Carolina.
