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Keith Odom, a forklift driver from Aiken, S.C., looks out from his bus seat as he arrives in Montgomery, Ala., for a voting rights rally Saturday, May 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow)

On the voting rights trail, bus riders to Montgomery retrace old steps while fighting a new fight

The year was 1965 and Black Americans had come to Montgomery, Alabama, to demonstrate peacefully voting rights.

A Fisk University sign is seen July 18, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Nashville HBCU Fisk University Launches $900M Campus Transformation — With a Data Center

People march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 61st Bloody Sunday Anniversary, Sunday, March 8, 2026, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

On 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, worries about the future of voting rights and calls to action

Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesman Bernard LaFayette speaks to reporters after attending a SCLC meeting, March 6, 2010, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith, File)

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85

State troopers swing billy clubs to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965. (AP Photo, File)

The Voting Rights Act is turning 60. Civil rights marchers recall a hard-won struggle

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s assassination, has died. He was 84. (Produced by Carrie Antlfinger)

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‘Good Trouble Lives On': protesters march against Trump’s policies, honoring John Lewis

Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness

AP explains why Cory Booker broke a Senate record that stood 68 years

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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a ceremony in the President's Room near the Senate chambers in Washington, Aug. 6, 1965. Surrounding the president from left directly above his right hand, Vice President Hubert Humphrey; Speaker John McCormack; Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y.; Luci Johnson; and Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill. Behind Humphrey is House Majority Leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma; and behind Celler is Sen. Carl Hayden, D-Ariz. (AP Photo, File)

Protections of the Voting Rights Act are under threat as the law marks its 60th anniversary

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., addresses a crowd at a rally protesting the National Rifle Association's annual convention a few blocks away in Atlanta, April 29, 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman, file)

Nationwide protests begin against Trump’s immigration crackdown and health care cuts

This combination of images shows cover art for "James" by Percival Everett, left, and "John Lewis: A Life" by David Greenberg. (Doubleday/Simon & Schuster via AP)

Pulitzer-winning novel ‘James’ is up for another major honor

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, speaks in the House chamber prior to the final vote for President Donald Trump's signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, at the Capitol, Thursday, July 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Hakeem Jeffries took his ‘sweet time’ holding the floor to delay Trump’s tax bill

The U.S. Navy launches the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler ship named after the first openly gay elected official, in San Diego, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo, File)

USNS Harvey Milk is renamed after a WWII sailor in the latest Pentagon diversity purge

In this Sept. 26, 1957, file photo, members of the 101st Airborne Division take up positions outside Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. The troops were on duty to enforce integration at the school. (AP Photo/File)

National Guard troops in LA, the latest in long history of deployments during civil rights protests

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the John Lewis-class replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) conducts a replenishment at sea in the Atlantic Ocean, Dec. 13, 2024. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Maxwell Orlosky/U.S. Navy via AP))

San Francisco leaders blast Trump for trying to erase gay rights icon Harvey Milk’s name from ship

Georgia state Rep. Derrick Jackson poses for a portrait at the capitol on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Georgia state Rep. Derrick Jackson to join 3 other Democrats in run for governor

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the John Lewis-class replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) conducts a replenishment at sea in the Atlantic Ocean, Dec. 13, 2024. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Maxwell Orlosky/U.S. Navy via AP))

Hegseth orders the name of gay rights activist Harvey Milk scrubbed from Navy ship

This image provided by Fellowship of Reconciliation shows the cover of "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story," a 16-page comic book published by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a Christian-turned-interfaith anti-war organization, in 1958. (Fellowship of Reconciliation via AP)

An interfaith group’s 1950s MLK comic book remains a prominent nonviolence teaching tool

This image provided by Ubisoft shows a scene from the new Assassin's Creed Shadows video game. (Ubisoft via AP)

Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness

The National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall is seen on Friday, March 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Prominent pastor notified books loaned to African American museum may be returned amid review

This March 29, 2019 photo provided by the New Market Fire and Rescue Team shows a fire at the main offices of the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tenn. (Sammy Solomon/New Market Fire and Rescue Team via AP)

Feds charge alleged white supremacist over 2019 arson at Tennessee school that trained Rosa Parks

Prolific civil rights attorney Fred Gray talks outside of the Alabama Bar Association in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle)

Legendary civil rights attorney Fred Gray honored with statue in Alabama

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks at a town hall event held at the Bergen Community College in Paramus, N.J., on on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

‘This has got to be a moment in America,’ Cory Booker tells 1st town hall since record speech

In this image provided by Senate Television, Sen, Cory Booker, D-N.J. speaks on the Senate floor, Tuesday morning, April 1, 2025. (Senate Television via AP)

With a nod to America’s civil rights legacy, Sen. Cory Booker makes a mark of his own

In this image provided by Senate Television, Sen, Cory Booker, D-N.J. speaks on the Senate floor, Tuesday morning, April 1, 2025. (Senate Television via AP)

Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech. Will it rally anti-Trump resistance?

Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Ga., speaks during an election night event for Democratic candidate for Georgia Governor Stacey Abrams in Atlanta on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, file)

Rep. Nikema Williams resigns from her role as chair of Georgia’s Democratic Party

This image released by CBS shows Karla Cheatham Mosley as Dani Dupree Hamilton in a scene from "Beyond the Gates." (Quantrell Colbert/CBS via AP)

Come ‘Beyond the Gates’ for the first Black-led soap opera — the first new network soap in decades

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., appears on stage at the 50th annual NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, March 30, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Former Vice President Kamala Harris to be honored by NAACP with its Chairman’s Award

This image provided by the Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative, speaks during the unveiling of a a statue of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, at the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Plaza, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Montgomery, Ala. (Equal Justice Initiative via AP)

Statue of the late US Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, is unveiled in his native Alabama

This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "John Lewis: A Life" by David Greenberg. (Simon & Schuster via AP)

Book Review: ‘John Lewis: A Life’ further humanizes a civil rights giant

People stand around the statue honoring the late civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis during its unveiling ceremony in Decatur, Ga., on Saturday, Aug 24, 2024. (Steve Schaefer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Crowd on hand for unveiling of John Lewis statue at spot where Confederate monument once stood

A large bronze statue of the late civil rights leader and politician Congressman John Lewis is installed where a monument to the Confederacy was brought down in 2020, in the wake of the death of George Floyd, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, in Decatur, Ga. (AP Photo/Ron Harris)

Bronze statue of John Lewis replaces more than 100-year-old Confederate monument

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, file photo, civil rights leader U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is extolled at an event with fellow Democrats before passing the Voting Rights Advancement Act to eliminate potential state and local voter suppression laws, at the Capitol in Washington. An upcoming biography of Lewis will draw upon hundreds of interviews, along with the civil rights activist's FBI files and materials from a planned book that was never completed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Biography of the late Rep. John Lewis that draws upon 100s of interviews will be published next fall

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks during the stamp unveiling ceremony in honor of Rep. John Lewis on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Stamp of civil rights icon John Lewis unveiled in ceremony at the US Capitol

FILE - Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. The Republican majority in the Georgia state senate voted on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, to build a statue of Thomas on the state capitol grounds, despite Democratic opposition to honoring the longtime Supreme Court member and Georgia native. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Clarence Thomas statue backed by Republicans in Georgia

The USNS Earl Warren (T-AO 207) is seen on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023 in San Diego, as she is christened by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Warren is 5th justice with Navy ship

This image provided by the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, shows a new postage stamp honoring the late congressman and civil rights giant John Lewis. (U.S. Postal Service via AP)

US postage stamp to honor civil rights icon John Lewis

Helen Butler, executive director of The Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda, speaks to organizers at a Black church tradition event known as "Souls to the Polls," in Decatur, Ga., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Sudhin Thanawala)

Black church tradition survives Georgia’s voting changes

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