President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris met with civil rights leaders Tuesday amid a push to diversity their cabinet.
Among theWhite House guests joining first lady Jill Bidenin the House gallery on Thursday are IVF patients, gun control activists, civil rights advocates and recipients of student loan debt relief. Kate Cox, a Texas woman who made headlines for speaking out after being denied an abortion in the...
committee for civil rights under law, an advocacy group, is expected to play a pivotal role as the justice department focuses more on civil rights issues, criminal justice and policing policies in the wake of nationwide protests over the death of black americans at the hands of law ...
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NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson joined CBSN to discuss why civil rights groups are calling for more diversity in President-elect Joe Biden's most "high-profile" Cabinet seats, and the importance of reaffirming a commitment to civil
Civil rights activist Bettie Mae Fikes, bottom center, stands as she is recognized by Biden. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images A Congress member holds up four fingers as Biden speaks, calling for four more years of his presidency. Andrew Harnik/AP Biden speaks to the join session of Congress...
“That is why we have come to Atlanta today, to the cradle of the civil rights movement to the district that was represented by the great Congressman John Lewis,” Harris said. In a direct shot to Republicans who chalk the Democratic efforts on voting rights up to politic...
President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s January 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM Biden's legacy: Historians weigh in on how the 46th president will be remember...
skip to main content voting rights joe biden’s message to voting rights holdouts: get on the right side of history as civil rights leaders grow frustrated, the president is ramping up the rhetoric in an effort to get senate democrats to support changes to the filibuster. by eric lutz...
"And that's why – I had not planned on running after he died, and then Charlottesville happened." On August 12, 2017,white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginiaturned deadly whenHeather Heyer, a civil rights activist, was murderedin what the Justice Department ...