President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who ...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in response to protests in Los Angeles this weekend was the first ...

On March 7, 1965, another crowd of hundreds ... Many of the organizers involved in the event, also called the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee, see it as an opportunity to recommit to voting rights ...

In a democracy — as opposed to a dictatorship — the military should not be used to police citizens unless civilian law ...

For the first time in 60 years - since LBJ sent federal troops to Selma to protect American citizens, including MLK, defying ...

President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles, over the objection of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, represents a structural threat to democracy. The law on which Trump relied ...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard (and later, Marines) to Los Angeles, over the objection of ...

It’s impossible to prove – and that’s why it may be Gov. Gavin Newsom’s and other California Democrats’ perfect attack line ...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles, over the objection of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...

The protest, one of several planned this week, comes as the Trump administration continues to push for increased ICE ...

So now, The Root is taking a closer look at the anti-racist white heroes who were just as down for civil rights as Black ...