Voting

Liz Kennedy joins the Facebook Civil Rights Team as Manager, Voting Rights Adweek

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNNThe Rev. Jesse Jackson, along with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other black religious leaders, marched in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to seek voting rights largely encouraged by the Black Church.…

Last year our nation lost civil rights activists John Lewis, CT Vivian, Bruce Boynton, Joseph Lowery, and most recently Bob Moses. These are just a few of the legion of courageous personalities who advocated the right and the risk decades…

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, speaks during a subcommittee hearing on the Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigation of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 4, 2017.WASHINGTON - US…

Rhode Island civil rights activist Clifford R. Montiero speaks with Boston Globe reporter Edward Fitzpatrick while taping the Rhode Island Report podcast.Carlos MunozPROVIDENCE - Rhode Island civil rights icon, Clifford R. Montiero,…

Bob Moses, who died this week at the age of 86, was an unconventional civil rights activist. He did not enliven the crowd with fiery speeches and was not known for leading marches, but few leaders have evoked such veneration.Moses helped…

GEORGETOWN - Defiant, even bold, the leaders of a national push for new federal voting laws gathered late Tuesday at a Lutheran church off Interstate 35 in Georgetown to launch a re-enactment of one of the civil rights movement's most…

Bob Moses' heroic struggle for the right to vote should inspire today's movement, civil rights activists told The Albany Herald

DEARBORN, me. - A new push is underway in the town of Dearborn - which has the highest density of Arab Americans in the country - to get more voting information and ballots in Arabic.For voters who do not speak English, lawyers are…

Texas Democrat who votes Bill Walkout says she protects civil rights in NPR