Category: Civil Rights
Biden Adviser: Trump ‘Has Fanned the Flames, and Incited Violence in this Country’
In the midst of a nation facing a climbing number of deaths from COVID-19 and clamoring for racial justice and police reform, Donald Trump is inciting violence as part of his attempt at re-election, according to a senior adviser to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Martin Luther King III: ‘We Must Be a Living Movement Not a Monument’
As thousands gathered in Washington DC Friday to commemorate Dr Martin Luther King Jr's 1963 March on Washington, King's namesake urged those in attendance not to dwell in the past but to work for justice in the present.
Kamala Harris Calls BlackLivesMatter ‘Counter Force of Status Quo’
Presumptive Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris name-checked the Black Lives Matter movement for praise as she described a program that she developed earlier in her career in California.
Obama Pitches ‘John Lewis Act’ to Expand Voting Rights to Felons, Puerto Rico; Scrap Filibuster
While eulogizing John Lewis Thursday to thunderous applause, former president Barack Obama sought to leave the congressman and civil rights giant a durable political legacy.
Tom Cotton’s Abhorrent Comments Are The Ultimate Disrespect for John Lewis
It's a hell of a send-off for a man who had been one of last of the great fighters for civil rights and so revered for so long that he was known as the "conscience of the Congress."
Adam Schiff on Deployment of Federal Agents: The Objective Here Is for Trump to Have a Campaign Issue
A top House Democrat who has a long history of investigating Donald Trump called out the Trump's use of unidentified paramilitary federal agents as nothing more than a political stunt.
Trump’s Secret Police Deployment Just ‘Smells Like Politics’
Donald Trump's move to deploy unidentified Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the streets of Portland, Ore., continued to get poor reviews from those in Congress as well as a former homeland security secretary.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth to DHS: ‘Don’t Even Think About’ Sending Federal Police to Chicago
A US senator from Illinois is warning Donald Trump not to send the kind of unidentified, paramilitary federal agents who have been snatching protesters from the streets of Portland Ore., also to the streets of Chicago.
Oregon Congresswoman: Federal Police ‘Inflaming’ the Protesters in Portland
It is the unidentified federal agents--not the local protesters--inflaming conditions on the streets of Portland, Ore., according to a congresswoman whose district includes the city.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Blames Federal Troops for Civil Unrest in His City
It's been the unidentified federal agents which the Trump administration has been sending into the city--not the protesters themselves--which are turning the protests in Portland, Ore., violent, according to Mayor Ted Wheeler.
