Tag: civil rights

(AURN News) — Former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank has died at 86, according to The New York Times. Elected to Congress in…

(AURN News) — Tomorrow, the streets of Alabama will echo with footsteps that history has heard before. The stakes are new, but…

(AURN News) — On May 15, 1970, a horrific tragedy unfolded at Jackson State College in Mississippi. Just 10 days after the…

(AURN News) — President Donald Trump defended Republican-led redistricting efforts before departing on a three-day trip to Beijing, as Democrats and civil…

(AURN News) — Gerald Talbot, a civil rights trailblazer and the first Black person elected to the Maine Legislature, died May 9…

(AURN News) — On May 5, 1865, pastor and activist Adam Clayton Powell Sr. was born in Franklin County, Virginia. As a…

(AURN News) — A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to explain why it seized election records from majority-Black Fulton County,…

(AURN News) — Gov. Jeff Landry, R-La., has suspended all six congressional primaries scheduled for May 16 after a 6-3 Supreme Court…

WASHINGTON (AURN News) — Today, in a six-three decision, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights…

(AURN News) — On April 24, 1877, the end of Reconstruction was sealed when President Rutherford B. Hayes ordered the withdrawal of…

(AURN News) — The Trump Justice Department has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on charges of fraud, and legal observers say…

(AURN News) — On April 17, 1863, nearly a century before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, Charlotte L. Brown defied…