
The Hill - 8 hours 41 min ago
The framers gave us a system that allows an imperfect people to form a "more perfect union."...

The Hill - 10 hours 41 min ago
New polling shows a patriotic, politically diverse community that refuses to fit familiar stereotypes.

Mother Jones - 11 hours 11 min ago
Back in March, I wrote about the late Sarah Keys Evans, a Black veteran who played a key role in desegregating interstate travel. Before the summer of 1952, the 23-year-old private first class had never even taken part in a civil rights protest but after she was arrested and jailed overnight in her Women's Army Corps […]...

The Guardian - 11 hours 41 min ago
Guardian readers on celebrating on Independence Day every year and especially this year This Fourth of July, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its independence from Britain, a milestone that the Donald Trump administration is commemorating with a series of events and celebrations across the National Mall. The anniversary arrives against a backdrop of civil rights rollbacks , immigration crackdowns and strained international relations . For some Americans, however, the date carries...

New York Times - 13 hours 40 min ago
Representative Joyce Beatty said she had been inspired to wage the legal battle out of a desire to protect the civil rights legacy of President John F. Kennedy.

The Guardian - 17 hours 41 min ago
From the gold rush to civil rights, the moon landing to 9/11, the US has always understood, mythologised and sold itself through the power of the still image The United States was founded in 1776, but did not begin to see itself until the autumn of 1839, when daguerreotypes, the first form of photograph, reached American cities. You could argue the US began again on the morning it could look at its own face. At first photography seemed to answer the democratic promise of 1776. A portrait was no...