How armies of lawyers are now fighting to preserve the Voting Rights Act, which turned 49 this week.

We must remember the courage of the people of Mississippi and other Jim Crow states and that the civil rights movement was an endeavor of white and black bonding.

Think voting discrimination is largely a thing of the past? Think again.

Fifty years ago, hundreds of young people headed south to fight racial injustice. A new PBS American Experience film captures the events of that historic summer.

Those who dismiss these moments because of their flaws need to look harder at the joy and hope that shine out of them and what real changes have, historically, emerged.