civil rights movement

CLEVELAND (AP) — Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, has died. He was 87.

Rev. Jesse Jackson has compared the UK to the Taliban over the presence of ‘white male supremacy’ within the country.

Appearing on Steve Malzberg’s weekly Saturday commentary show Eat the Press, civil rights pioneer Bob Woodson lashed out at the radical left, claiming civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s statue would likely be targeted next and if he were alive today he’d be selected for “anti-bias” reeducation.

Former vice president and 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden has misled the public on multiple occasions throughout his career.

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, told President Donald Trump on Saturday that he should “say nothing” on the passing of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis. (D-GA).

Leaders and political figures across the nation paid tribute to late-Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) following the news of his death, remembering him as “a pioneering civil rights leader who put his life on the line to fight racism, promote equal rights, and bring our nation into greater alignment with its founding principles” and someone who “helped transform this country.”

Civil Rights Movement icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) died Friday night at 80 after a bout with pancreatic cancer.

If the CCP strategy is to conflate Chinese communism with China itself, then our strategy must be the opposite: We must seek to widen the divide between the CCP and the Chinese people, not only in China, but also among Chinese communities around the world. 

RENO, Nevada — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) compared himself to the late South African President Nelson Mandela in an address to supporters at the University of Nevada, Reno, on Tuesday morning.

Former Vice President Joe Biden asserted that he got involved in politics through the Civil Rights Movement at the eighth Democrat presidential primary debate in New Hampshire on Friday.

Flash-forward 32 years later and Biden is still lying.

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed on Sunday that his strong support from minority voters stemmed, in part, from having been politically “raised in the black church.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden inaccurately claimed on Saturday to have received his start at a historically black college or university (HBCU), despite never having attended such an institution.

Official White House records undercut a claim Joe Biden made during the fourth Democrat presidential primary debate of whipping votes for legislation that created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Sen. Richard Blumenthal suggested gun control is “just like that civil rights movement” during a Wednesday gun control rally on Capitol Hill.

Former Vice President Joe Biden once again falsely claimed to be part of the civil rights movement as he was campaigning in South Carolina on Thursday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed to have come out of the civil rights movement while campaigning in South Carolina on Wednesday.

The leader of a coalition of black pastors has published an open letter to former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, urging him to abandon his campaign against the Betsy Ross flag on a Nike athletic shoe and, instead, to focus his energies on activities that will directly help blacks and other Americans.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Thursday that she and three other freshman Congress members are relaunching the civil rights movement.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 Democrat frontrunner for president, lied in 1987 during his first of many runs for the Oval Office by claiming he marched in the Civil Rights Movement–something he never did.

The latest revelations about Martin Luther King Jr. present me with a fantastic opportunity to renew my proposal that we replace Martin Luther King Day with Thurgood Marshall Day.

The leader of an organization of black pastors directly addressed Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, insisting she “stop co-opting the civil rights movement” to advance her political agenda.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) declined Monday to condemn Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) for calling on the public to “harass” members of the Trump administration — but said that people should confront them “with love.”

Meet the Press host Chuck Todd said Saturday’s March for Our Lives rally in Washington was “right up there” with the civil rights marches of the 1960s.

An official at a Wisconsin County Fair reported that vendors were banned from selling Confederate flags because “someone got their feelings hurt,” a report says.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump issued a statement Sunday commemorating the 53rd anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King’s historic civil-rights march on Washington.

Donald Trump says he plans to help the Republican Party, which led the way on ending slavery, the Civil Rights movement and women’s suffrage and women’s rights—among other big picture moral leadership causes in American history—take more credit for its victories for women’s and civil rights while fighting Democrats who opposed those measures.

The leader of the black pastors organization that was born during the Civil Rights Movement led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. says the radical Black Lives Matter movement has failed to educate its members about the “real” Civil Rights Movement and is spewing a “twisted view of Christianity.”

In his recent broadcasts, talk radio host and conservative author and litigator Mark R. Levin has told his listeners that the subtitle of his new book, Plunder and Deceit, is even more important than the title. The subtitle reads: “Big Government’s

In an interview with Breitbart News, Rev. Bill Owens said that, should the Supreme Court decide in favor of same-sex marriage, he envisions another civil rights movement of Christians of various churches and massive civil disobedience.

Perhaps just two or three decades ago, gay and lesbian individuals and their support groups expressed a desire for others to accept them for who they were. Most of them likely struggled with their sexual identity, and ultimately, they wanted to know that the important people in their lives loved them and cared for them no matter what. Acceptance was the goal for gays and lesbians back then. My, how things have changed.