In the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gutted Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Freedom Summer 2026 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As advocates across the country rally to register voters ahead of November's 2024 presidential election, Leslie McLemore, the Rev.

A partisan Supreme Court decision threatens to largely undo the progress that the Voting Rights Act made against Black ...

The fight is just getting started: Civil rights leaders promise a massive escalation after the historic ‘All Roads Lead to ...

In January my father retraced steps he took 50 years ago in Hattiesburg, Miss. As a teenager in 1964, he had locked arms with men and women of goodwill seeking the most sacred and elusive right of ...

If you were a white person visiting Mississippi in the summer of 1964, you were risking your life. You were if you were participating in the Mississippi Summer Project, later known as Freedom Summer.

Charlie Cobb Jr. (WJXT, Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX - All rights reserved.) Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote ...

Hattiesburg is getting ready to celebrate Freedom Summer (again). Once a cradle of the civil rights movement with figures like Clyde Kennard and sisters Joyce and Dorie Ladner, Hattiesburg will ...

Freedom Summer was launched as an assault on segregation and inequality on many fronts. Activists set up 30 Freedom Schools as an alternative to the state’s underfunded and segregated education system ...

Tennessee may well be ground zero for Freedom Summer 2.0 and the fight to redeem democratic possibility in America, writes ...