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Black labor has powered America for generations, helping shape the labor movement even as unions and lawmakers often left Black ...

Sixty-three years after the original March on Washington, a multigenerational coalition gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to ...

Marcia Chatelain is a Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the ...

The fact that we still have to fight to maintain and renew voting rights in this country is beyond abysmal and a truly national disgrace,' Martin Luther King III said Friday.

WASHINGTON — Just over two months from midterm elections and four months removed from a U.S. Supreme Court decision that gutted Voting Rights Act protections for majority Black U.S. House districts, ...

This is the first year we are marching that the voting rights bill has been nullified by the Supreme Court,” Rev. Al Sharpton ...

The reboot of the 1963 March on Washington was meant to offer a jolt of optimism at a time of deep uncertainty.

The first factory strike in U.S. history began on May 26th, 1824. The New England factory system itself was still finding its footing, and its legions of poorly paid young workers were at constant ...

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"It's not just for minorities, it's not just for blacks or brown people, it's for everybody." — March committee member Phyllis Qualls NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Hundreds are expected to gather in ...

Despite intense heat and humidity in downtown Nashville July 18, hundreds of demonstrators, state legislators and local officials gathered to march in the 5 th annual Rep. John Lewis Way march, ...