Courage Over Fear: Will Americans Stand Strong For Free And Fair Elections?

Courage Over Fear: Will Americans Stand Strong For Free And Fair Elections?

Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC) is the go-to for both reassurance and resolve. That makes sense, since the South Carolina Democrat is a student of history — and has lived it.He chronicles some of the country’s past, and his own, in his book The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation, published late last year. It’s instructive to learn about the lives of these eight and the Jim Crow discrimination tha…

On 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, worries about the future of voting rights and calls to action

By Kim Chandler SELMA, Ala. — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city the weekend of March 7-8 amid new concerns about the future of the Voting Rights Act. The March 7, 1965, violence that became known as Bloody Sunday […]