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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Two voting-rights groups have sued the state of Missouri in an attempt to block parts of a new law that restrict voter registration efforts and absentee voter outreach.

Speaking to hundreds of civil rights activists gathered in Atlantic City, Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday framed the November midterm elections as an existential fight for liberty and progress, saying “extremist so-called leaders (are) attempting to undermine our democracy and assault our most fundamental freedoms.”

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the Jersey Shore on Monday, speaking at the NAACP’s national convention in Atlantic City.

The 25-year-old Black man who died last month at the hands of police in Akron, Ohio, was shot dozens of times, with 26 bullets recovered from his body, according to a preliminary autopsy report.

Police in Akron, Ohio shot the unarmed Black man 46 times, causing ‘devastating injuries’, medical examiner says.

The NAACP is making a direct plea to Attorney General Merrick Garland for the Justice Department to open a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting death of Jayland Walker, the Black man who was killed last month by officers in Ohio in a hail of police gunfire

WASHINGTON — Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat and the highest-ranking African American in the House, spoke recently with the Los Angeles Times about Democrats' plan before the midterm elections, the Jan. 6 hearings, his future in the party's leadership and when he'll know when it's time…

Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and the victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which the U.S. Public Health Service refused for decades to provide readily available treatment to Black men who had the disease.