Obama: Senate Should Eliminate Filibuster To Protect Voting Rights
Barack Obama delivered a forceful criticism of the way the Senate conducts business on Thursday, calling the filibuster a “Jim Crow relic” and telling the chamber to get rid of…
Lynching Is Finally A Federal Hate Crime 65 Years After Emmett Till’s Death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, the House has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, introduced…