Representative Cori Bush (D-MO) held a news conference on her fifth day of protest on the U.S. Capitol steps to highlight the plight of people facing evictions across the country as a federa…
501 views2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Senator Sanders was joined by Reverend Jesse Jackson who had endorsed the senator…
3,782 viewsFormer President Bill Clinton delivered remarks in Detroit at the funeral for former Representative John Conyers (D), who represented Michigan in the House of Representatives from 1965 to 20…
2,353 viewsPete Buttigieg, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and mayor of South Bend, Indiana, addressed the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Convention in Chicago. He talked briefly about a recent police…
3,841 viewsAt the Rainbow PUSH Coalition convention in Chicago, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, spoke at a press briefing with the Reverend Jesse Ja…
2,586 viewsFormer Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, addressed the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Convention in Chicago. He talked about overcoming racial inequality and the ne…
5,189 viewsAn outdoor service from Memphis commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. The ceremony at the National Civil Rights Museum’s plaza in front of the preserv…
4,567 viewsThe Democratic National Committee held its summer meeting in Chicago. Members voted to make significant changes to the 2020 presidential nominating process, reducing the influence of party s…
1,415 viewsThe Democratic National Committee held its summer meeting in Chicago. Members voted to make significant changes to the 2020 presidential nominating process, reducing the influence of party s…
24 viewsOn the 50th anniversary commemorating the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., past and present civil rights leaders that included Representative John Lewis (D-GA), Marian Wright Ede…
1,449 viewsReverend Al Sharpton, led the “Ministers March for Justice” on the 54th anniversary of the March on Washington during which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. The march…
1,499 viewsSurrogates and campaign officials representing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton spoke to reporters after the second of three p…
1,173 viewsDay three of the 2016 Democratic National Convention included speeches by President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
23,608 viewsReverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, Attorney General Eric Holder, and others participated in a church service commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgome…
2,657 viewsCivil rights leaders, colleagues, and friends of the late Marion Barry gathered at the Washington Convention Center for a funeral service for former Washington, D.C, mayor, who died on Novem…
15,144 viewsBlack national civil and human rights organization leaders held a media teleconference to discuss the escalating tensions in Ferguson, Missouri, after the killing by a police officer on Augu…
205 viewsPhone lines were open for viewer comments on the state of race relations in 2014. Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke by phone about race relations in light of the police shooting of unarmed tee…
438 viewsMinority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus held a rally on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to urge House Republicans to allow a vote on a Sen…
283 viewsCivil rights leaders and members of Congress talked about voting rights and the Supreme Court ruling from earlier in the year that struck down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 …
201 viewsCivil rights leaders talked about race and poverty in the United States. They focused many of their remarks on Dr. Martin Luther King’s beliefs and teaching regarding poverty. Other topics i…
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