For one last month, Biden retains the responsibilities and powers of the nation’s highest office. If he believes his words, he must take urgent action to strengthen our democracy, even as he works to ensure a peaceful transfer of power.

The son of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. has called on President Joe Biden to make one major move before he leaves the White House in January. In an essay for the New York Times ...

In his first campaign ad this year, President Joe Biden asked a question over images of Martin Luther King Jr. and January 6 rioters: “What will we do to maintain

In his first campaign ad of 2024, President Joe Biden asked the question over images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jan. 6 rioters: “What will we do to maintain our democracy? History’s watching.” For one last month, Biden retains the ...

As Joe Biden’s presidency winds down ... That answer, as always, is up to us. As Martin Luther King Jr. empathically stated, “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle.”

The petition asks the president to give a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Attorney Louis L. Redding and Judge Collins J. Seitz.

US President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row, ahead of the return to power of Donald Trump, who has indicated that he would restart federal executions.

Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before Donald Trump takes office.

(Evan Vucci, Associated Press) figure> Former President Trump and newly announced running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) shake hands during the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 15.

Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY) led the panel of lawmakers -- mostly from the Congressional Black Caucus -- to exonerate Garvey on the heels of President Joe Biden's commutation of 37 sentences from federal death row on Monday.

This story by Allen Best appeared on BigPivots.com on December 12, 2024. The civil rights movement of the mid-20th century has greatly informed the life’s work of Auden Schendler in pushing for the massive changes at the scale necessary to confront the risks of global climate change.