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Byline: Barbara Spindel Contributor Abstract: David Greenberg's 'John Lewis: A Life' follows the civil rights leader from the Selma march to the halls of Congress. Lewis kept faith with the [...]

Byline: Jeff Calder For the AJC John Lewis grew up in an Alabama family so poor that he and his young cousins once had to shuttle from room to room, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): As the nation faced the consequential and unprecedented 2024 election, NAACP and [...]

Byline: Sarah Lettieri Brian Rose, the University's vice president for student affairs, led a discussion co-hosted with the Faculty Senate on Wednesday. It related First Amendment issues and reports of [...]

In “John Lewis: A Life,” David Greenberg recounts how the https://apnews.com/article/john-lewis-us-news-ap-top-news-mitch-mcconnell-immigration-89dac7a5b1e404e49b58bef127186759 reacted after Republicans scored a landslide victory in the 1994 election. A staffer hoped Lewis would buoy her spirits [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Massachusetts Senator Edward J. Markey: Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, introduced his [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito: ù This week, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee [...]

ARLINGTON, VA -- The following information was released by Americans for Prosperity (AFP): by Casey Mattox I had a different plan for this week's newsletter. With all the Supreme Court [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions: ù Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski For much of the last year, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and a bipartisan group of his colleagues have been huddling with tech CEOs, civil rights [...]

Byline: Maya King Many older Black voters see moral and political reasons to vote. Younger Black voters feel far less motivated to cast a ballot for Democrats or even at [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Illinois Senator Richard J. Durbin: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senate Majority Leader [...]

U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member and former Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), issued the following statement applauding the new final [...]

Byline: Michael Williams and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) -- Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday honored 19 Americans with the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of [...]

Byline: Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — The leader of the Justice Department's civil rights division, Kristen Clarke, said in an extraordinary personal statement shared with CNN that she [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C -- The following information was released by Washington Senator Patty Murray: ICYMI: Murray led comment by Senate Democrats in calling for strongest possible rule to ensure nondiscrimination protections [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by Hawaii Senator Mazie K. Hirono: ~ Hirono amendments would prevent expansion of surveillance authorities and govern use of FISA-derived information in [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Michigan Rep. John Moolenaar: Today, Congressman John Moolenaar voted in favor of an amendment that would require the Department [...]

SPRINGFIELD -- The following information was released by the Illinois Senate Democrats: To secure a border scope of accountability for protecting human rights, State Senator Mike Simmons advanced legislation to [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK -- The following information was released by the Oklahoma State Senate: Sen. Kevin Matthews, D-Tulsa, has won Senate passage for his bill taking the next step in [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): Coalition's call to action comes during congressional briefing on lack of progress in implementing U.S. human [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith Charles D. Ferris, a Washington lawyer who helped enact landmark civil rights legislation as a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and who helped usher [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith Charles D. Ferris, a Washington lawyer who helped enact landmark civil rights legislation as a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and who helped usher [...]

Byline: Andrew Lawrence Sixty years on, Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech remains a rhetorical paragon, pushing the civil rights movement into the law books while transforming the [...]

Byline: David Smith in Washington When he was a Ku Klux Klansman in South Carolina, Elwin Wilson helped carry out a vicious assault that left John Lewis with bruised ribs, [...]

Byline: Tia Mitchell - Tia.Mitchell@ajc.com LOCAL IN-DEPTH POLITICS Just hours before yet another mass shooting in America, this one taking the lives of three people on the campus of the [...]

In their endless quest to further defang the Voting Rights Act and gerrymander their way into permanent control, Republican officials have launched a double-headed attack on the landmark civil rights [...]

Byline: Maya T. Prabhu - maya.prabhu@ajc.com VOTING RIGHTS Attorneys representing Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity on Tuesday filed objections to Georgias newly redrawn voting district maps, saying they dont create more [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): As Speaker Johnson prepares to bring a new Section 702 reauthorization bill to the [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by Georgia Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock: Senator Reverend Warnock: 'These pastors that you hear me talking about, they gave me an example [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Vermont Senator Peter Welch: Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen: A group of Senators raised concerns to the Department of Justice that funding frequently inaccurate facial recognition [...]

Jude Volek brings high-level government civil rights experience to the firm's White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Latham & Watkins LLP[sup.1 ]is pleased to [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK -- The following information was released by the Oklahoma State Senate: Sen. Kevin Matthews, D-Tulsa, has filed legislation taking the next step in creating Oklahoma's Civil Rights [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul: Including FISA in the NDAA, without necessary reform to Section 702, would continue to allow the U.S. [...]

Byline: Daniel Boffey Chief reporter A new law making it easier for the police to put conditions on peaceful protests is 'constitutionally unprecedented' and unlawful, according to a claim filed [...]

Republicans in the state violated a landmark civil rights law in drawing maps that diluted the power of Black voters, a federal judge in Atlanta ruled. Republicans in Georgia violated [...]