Known nationally for his opposition to desegregation and federal civil rights mandates, Wallace used Wisconsin as a political ...

The commemoration of Nigeria’s democracy day (2025) was specially marked with the conferment of National Honours on some ...

According to the delegate-selection rules for last year’s Democratic National Convention, each state was required to give “priority of consideration . . . to African Americans, Hispanics, Native ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaking on the first day of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ...

Fannie Lou Hamer’s path to the 1964 Democratic National Convention began in rural poverty. Born on Oct. 6, 1917, Hamer was the granddaughter of enslaved Black people and worked as a sharecropper ...

During the Democratic convention week, polling tracked by Real Clear Politics showed Harris' national average continuing to rise while Trump's inched down.

DeBerry was part of a racially-integrated group protesting the seating of an all-white Mississippi delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention at the location. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) ...

Sias wears a dress emblazoned with the words of Hamer, who challenged the seating of Mississippi’s all-White delegation at the 1964 Democratic convention. Silas reflected on the greater arc of ...

FILE - Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, testifies before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., on Aug. 22 ...

It was during the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, that Fannie Lou Hamer sat before the credentials committee to give testimony about her experience as a ...