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Vice President Harris made remarks at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. She was joined by Representative Terri Sewell (D-AL)…

Martin Luther King III, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and others held a news conference to call on the Senate to eliminate the filibuster and pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights…

General Edmund Pettus, the namesake for the bridge at the beginning of the route from Selma to Montgomery, was a Civil War General and two-term U.S. Senator from Alabama. John Giggie, University of Alabama…

In the weekly Democratic address Representative Terri Sewell (AL) talked about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Reverend Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders led a march on issues including voting rights, criminal justice, health care and pay equity. Following the march, a rally was held near…

2015 marked the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Civil Rights Selma marches that motivated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In commemoration of the protestors, or “foot soldiers,” the Office of…

House and Senate leaders posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the victims of the 1963 16th St. Baptist Church bombing. On September 15, 1963, shortly after the March on…

President Obama, Representative John Lewis (D-GA), and others participated in an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

Attorney Fred Gray, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and others spoke about the roles played by lawyers in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Movement.

Reverends Al Sharpton, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Attorney General Eric Holder, and others participated in a church service commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma to…

An official ceremony was held at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, to commemorated the 50th anniversary of the bombing of the church by segregationists on September 15,…