Civil Rights

White House Pushes To Jump-Start Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases Board

The White House has named nominees for the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, which will reexamine unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era.
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Manchin Unswayed By Civil Rights Leaders On Voting Rights Bill

Activists left a meeting with the pivotal West Virginia Democrat knowing they need to do more to persuade him.
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Senate Confirms Kristen Clarke To Lead DOJ's Civil Rights Division

Clarke will be the first woman, and first Black woman, to run the powerful division created in 1957. Every Republican but one voted against her.
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Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Recall Century-Old Horrors During Congressional Hearing

"I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street," said 107-year-old Viola Fletcher, who testified along with two other survivors of the 1921 attack.
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Black Progressives Get Personal And Political About Right-Wing Voter Suppression

Years of white rage over nonwhite attempts to vote have given Black progressives an incomparable view of right-wing extremism and the nation’s ability to reject it.
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Kamala Harris Visits Historic Woolworth's Lunch Counter Where Sit-In Movement Began

In Greensboro, North Carolina, the vice president takes a seat Rosa Parks once occupied after the counter became part of a civil rights museum.
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DOJ Civil Rights Alums Back Kristen Clarke Ahead Of Ugly Confirmation Battle

More than 80 former officials are supporting the nomination of Kristen Clarke, a longtime civil rights lawyer who would be the first woman confirmed to the job.
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Mitch Shredded For Racist Filibuster

Sen. Mitch McConnell falsely claimed that the filibuster had “no racial history at all.”
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Mitch McConnell Gets Instant Fact-Check Over Brazenly False Filibuster Defense

The Senate minority leader was schooled on the history of the filibuster.
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Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee To Honor 4 Civil Rights Icons

Activists to remember the late John Lewis, Joseph Lowery, C.T. Vivian and Bruce Boynton at a virtual commemoration of the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
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