The 2023 March on Washington: ‘Continuing the Dream’
'We can’t get free unless we control our own bodies, our lives, and our futures,' said Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood.
By Rebekah Sager - August 28, 2023'We can’t get free unless we control our own bodies, our lives, and our futures,' said Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood.
By Rebekah Sager - August 28, 2023The Mitch McConnell-linked Senate Leadership Fund super PAC repeats false accusations made by Republican candidate Herschel Walker.
By Josh Israel - November 18, 2022Both Juneteenth and MLK Day endured questions from lawmakers of whether the costs to taxpayers were worth it.
By Josh Axelrod - June 16, 2021Campsites used by voting rights marchers in 1965 need immediate attention or risk being lost, according to the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation.
By Associated Press - June 03, 2021‘I encourage you to study my father more comprehensively,’ the Civil Rights icon’s daughter, Bernice King, tweeted in response to one Republican.
By Josh Israel - January 18, 2021Trump has never volunteered on the day of service honoring the late civil rights leader.
By Emily Singer - January 18, 2021Organizers said the objective of the march is to show the urgency for federal policing reforms, to decry racial violence, and to demand voting rights protections ahead of the November general election.
By Associated Press - August 28, 2020The service will be held in the Atlanta church once led by Martin Luther King Jr.
By Associated Press - July 30, 2020North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Dan Forest claimed it’s a ‘double standard’ to honor women’s health champion Margaret Sanger but not the Confederacy.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 23, 2020Trump has consistently fought against Martin Luther King Jr.’s priorities.
By Josh Israel - January 20, 2020Nearly every single House Republican rejected the Voting Rights Advancement Act last month.
By Josh Israel - January 20, 2020Graham’s 2020 opponent Jaime Harrison said, ‘Comparing the FBI’s Russia Inquiry to the FBI’s persecution of Civil Rights leaders is tone-deaf.”
By Dan Desai Martin - December 12, 2019The Trump campaign honored the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in the most casual and cavalier way possible.
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 04, 2018When she disrupted a breakfast honoring Martin Luther King Jr., the crowd rejected her racism and told her to “get out!”
By Tommy Christopher - January 16, 2018Mike Pence attended a ceremony at an African American church in Maryland. It did not go well for him.
By Matthew Chapman - January 15, 2018Trump’s brand of racism is nothing new for Republicans.
By Tommy Christopher - January 15, 2018Donald Trump’s actions speak louder than his lip service to Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
By Tommy Christopher - January 15, 2018Rep. Gregory Meeks sees complicity in congressional Republicans shameful silence on Trump precisely the sort of inaction in the face of adversity Dr. King warned about.
By Matthew Chapman - January 15, 2018Donald Trump recently tried to claim that the Russia investigation is “making our country look foolish,” in the most blatant case of “I know you are but what am I” in modern history. In fact, it is Trump’s behavior whether hateful, ignorant, or childish, or some combination thereof that is making the United […]
By Alison R. Parker - January 13, 2018Donald Trump was not prepared for the fallout from his comments behind closed doors disparaging Haiti and African nations as shithole countries. But now that he understands the trouble he has created for himself and his presidency, he cannot get away from reporters fast enough. On Friday, Trump delivered an awkward speech recognizing Martin Luther […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 12, 2018