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Pandemic or no, Americans last week commemorated the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a cul...

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Politicians, media and research groups spend scads of money each election to poll the public about whom t...

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Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton dedicated their lives to the cause of women’s ...

Civil rights hero and U.S. Representative John Lewis died July 17 at the age of 80. He had been battling ...

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The year was 1943 and Joseph Carpenter had just received orders to report to Camp Montford Point in Jacks...

Nury Turkel was born in a reeducation camp during China’s Cultural Revolution. Today, he is fighting for ...

They may not have the flash and cash — that is, campaign donations — of Republicans and Democrats, but ev...

Despite the new coronavirus, the United States will hold its national election this year. Experts say ...

Voting is an important cornerstone of democracy. And in the United States, ballots appear in multiple lan...

While each major U.S. political party has many states it counts on winning in November’s presidential ele...

The United States has pledged to spend up to $100 million in existing funds to combat the coronavirus dis...

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