The civil rights leader helped pass the Voting Rights Act and fought for voting rights over five decades.

It is true that the South is beleaguered, but that only means we must do more to lift up those who are reshaping it.

Our democracy is threatened when voting becomes a wedge issue between the parties.

A new video from the Equal Justice Initiative sets out to explain how the myth of racial difference that was created to sustain American slavery persists today. Slavery did not end in 1865, it evolved.

For those who never get the chance to speak about their lived experiences in public, protest is the only opportunity to make their voices heard.

The billy clubs and literacy tests of yesteryear have been replaced by subtler and more sophisticated attempts to control who has access to the ballot box.

It is the battle flag of white cowards, and those angry that white privilege is ending, writes historian Douglas Blackmon.

Two years ago, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Senator Patrick Leahy and Congressman John Lewis have a plan to fix that.

Fifty years ago, African-Americans were denied the right to vote. Now the vast majority of Americans are being denied the rightful value of their vote.

Biodiverse, ecological agriculture in the hands of women is a solution not just to the malnutrition crisis, but also the climate crisis.