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Secretary of State John Kerry and the Ambassador Johnson-Cook released the annual State Department report on abuses of religious freedom abroad. The report outlines specific infringements on…

Panelists examined tensions between the freedoms of expression and religion in the context of political transitions happening in the Middle East and North Africa. Among the subjects they dis…

Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook spoke to reporters about the annual report on international religious freedom. The State Department report criticized Afghanistan and Pakistan among others for …

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Michael Posner and Suzan Johnson Cook spoke to reporters on the latest congressionally-mandated State Department report on religious freedom around the wo…

The Martin Luther King National Memorial Foundation held a celebration dinner in anticipation of the August 28, 2011, unveiling of the memorial to Reverend King on the National Mall. This po…

President and Mrs. Obama and Vice President and Mrs. Biden attended the National Prayer Service in the National Cathedral. Spiritual leaders representing various religious traditions offered…

Democratic Party leaders spoke about party platform issues and Senator John Kerry’s candidacy for president. Proceedings also included entertainment and short videos highlighting issues.

President Bush and three former presidents, national politicians, as well as civil rights and religious leaders paid tribute to the life and memory of Coretta Scott King at a funeral service…

Democratic officials spoke to supporters about the upcoming 2000 election. They urged voters to support Vice President Al Gore.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter meeting began with a video about the desegregation of Little Rock High School in 1954, African Development Foundation Chairman, Ernest Green, one of the …

Fairfax County students and teachers discussed their varying experiences of race in education during this meeting of the President’s Advisory Board on Race. Board Chairman John Hope Franklin…

In their second meeting the PRESIDENT’S INITIATIVE ON RACE heard testimony from three experts on racial attitudes. James Jones spoke about the embedded nature of race in U.S. society. …

President William Jefferson Clinton and Vice President Albert Gore Jr. addressed the President’s Advisory Board on Race. The board was holding its meeting on the relationship between demogra…

President Bill Clinton’s Advisory Board on Race held its first meeting in its yearlong effort to develop a report on race relations in the United States. The members of the board talked abou…

Rep. Edward Roybal D-CA, called to order the second night of the 1992 Democratic Convention. The invocation, a rendition of “God Bless America,” party business, and speeches from platform ch…