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When Eric Holder became U.S. attorney general, he promised to administer the law in an objective, nonpolitical manner. So it's disappointing that the Justice Department had spent the last several months misinterpreting key voting rights laws for nakedly political reasons.

I’ve been to numerous hearings held by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights — but never before to one where there were armed security guards.But then, it has been decades since the commission held a hearing about the threats and intimidation carried out by an organization that the Anti-Defamation League categorizes as a hate group — in this case, the New Black Panther Party.

BOSTON — Bill Russell never had to find his voice as an activist. He didn’t know any other way but to speak his mind.

Remembering Bill Russell the activist who stood for respect, human dignity, and equality.

Robert Azzi, a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter, can be reached at theother.azzi@gmail.com. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. Medgar Evers was assassinated on June 12, 1963, in Jackson, Mississippi; murdered by a white...

BOSTON -- Bill Russell never had to find his voice as an activist. He didnt know any other way but to speak his mind.

BOSTON -- Bill Russell never had to find his voice as an activist. He didnt know any other way but to speak his mind.

The NBA icon built a legacy off the court as a voice for civil rights.

The Mississippi Democrat's willingness to weaponize law enforcement against political opponents on full display. Congressman Bennie Thompson, Chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, penned a letter on Friday calling for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to initiate a criminal inv

Photographer, activist and academic who chronicled the modern history of the American civil rights movement with her camera