Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, 600 marchers protesting for voting equality left the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma headed for the state capitol in Montgomery. Before they had even left town, ...
Rev. Jesse L. Douglas, a close aide to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., passed away in 2021 at age 90. His daughter, Adrienne Douglas Vaulx, said he died in a nursing home in Charlotte, North Carolina ...
*The NAACP today released the following statement regarding its letter sent to state officials around the nation regarding the issue of voter suppression. On the 52nd anniversary of the Selma to ...
The late Rep. John Lewis noted in a 2015 interview that King had a great deal of trust in Douglas' ability to coordinate the needs of the movement's logistics ...
What I see in the No Kings protests is what I saw in the civil rights movement: people trying to hold this country together, ...