These assaults on higher education are nothing new. They are part of a historical pattern: when education threatens ...

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What will our church do, if people in our congregation and community lose some or all of their Medicaid funding?” ...

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Advocacy organizations representing millions of educators, civil rights champions, school employees, students, and families ...

A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist—who orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington—opens at the National ...

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In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, ...

Sen. Ted Cruz has likened vouchers to “the civil rights issue of our time." But critics note they were used in the 1950s to fight integrated schools.

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It included just 28 words, but a single sentence transformed the civil rights of women ... their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force ...

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