Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday signed into law new rules for challenging voters’ eligibility along with a measure that would make it easier for an independent candidate to qualify for ...

Gov. Brian Kemp has signed legislation that makes additional changes to Georgia’s election laws ahead of the 2024 ...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has until May 7 to sign any remaining legislation from this year’s session. If he doesn’t sign the ...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... commencement ceremonies with a unique challenge: providing safety for graduates while honoring the free speech rights of students involved in protests ...

A group of civil rights advocates voted unanimously for the ... Mitchell, the first Black Marylander to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1970. Mitchell died in 2007, and Caucus ...

Since our nation’s founding, discriminatory policies and laws have created an unequal system in which Black communities have had their civil rights and liberties denied and have been systemically ...

Former President Donald J. Trump will return to the campaign trail today, with stops in Wisconsin and Michigan, his first ...

Pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the ... The complaint comes hours before the school’s deadline for protesters to clear their ...

Explore the story of Elizabeth Fry and her attempts to make Newgate Prison a better place. Who was Emmeline Pankhurst? Explore the life of Emmeline Pankhurst and find out how she helped women to ...

"I think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that inspired ... Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Son House, and Roy Hamilton, as well as spoken-word segments ...

Congress approves a watered-down voting rights act after a filibuster by Southern senators. 1961-- Freedom Rides begin from Washington, D.C., into Southern states. 1962-- President Kennedy sends ...

Hundreds of civil rights activists calling themselves Freedom Riders bravely held the nation accountable to its rules against segregation in 1961. Here are the facts you need to know. For two ...