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Reverend Jesse Jackson speaks to a Democratic gathering at the Cheyenne Civic Center on April 20, 1989 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. An African American Baptist minister and political activist, Jackson was a candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1984 and 1988. In 2000 President Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest honor bestowed on civilians. ( Mark Junge / Getty Images)

Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson dead

Jelinda Montes
PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 23: Derrick Johnson onstage during the NAACP Panel: “From TV to Policy” hosted by Acura at the Acura House of Energy on January 23, 2026 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Acura)

NAACP's leader on democracy

Chauncey DeVega
US President Donald Trump participates in calls to US service members, on Christmas Eve, from the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, December 24, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / Getty Images)

Trump 2.0's attack on civil rights law

Spencer Overton - The Conversation
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MLK would be appalled by our health care

Tiffany D. Joseph
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March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery; among those pictured are, front row, politician and civil rights activist John Lewis (1940 – 2020), Reverend Ralph Abernathy (1926 - 1990), Ruth Harris Bunche (1906 - 1988), Nobel Prize-winning political scientist and diplomat Ralph Bunche (1904 - 1971), activist Hosea Williams (1926 – 2000 right carrying child). (Photo by William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Conservatives’ war against civil rights

Russell Payne
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 11: Border Patrol agents are confronted by activists after making an apprehension on January 11, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Trump administration has sent an estimated 2,000 federal agents into the area as they make a push to arrest undocumented immigrants. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

ICE steps up war on accountability

Nicholas Liu
American Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin, 7th April 1998. On March 2, 1955, at the age of fifteen, Colvin was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. This predated the arrest of Rosa Parks and the the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott by nine months. (Photo by Dudley M. Brooks/The The Washington Post via Getty Images) (Photo by Dudley M. Brooks/Getty Images)

Claudette Colvin dies at 86

Jelinda Montes
A protester in Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza following the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ( Jason Alpert-Wisnia / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images)

Who's thwarting Trump's civil rights war

Sophia Tesfaye
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Donald Trump takes questions at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 22, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump: Civil rights "hurt" white men

Garrett Owen
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Racial harassment ignored under Trump

Jennifer Smith Richards, Megan O’Matz, Jodi S. Cohen - ProPublica
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher speaks about her memoir in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump is whitewashing American history

Chauncey DeVega
Attorney General Pam Bondi has demanded sensitive voting information from Minnesota and nearly two dozen other states. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

DOJ to send election monitors to NJ, CA

CK Smith
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Demonstrators protest against conversion therapy outside Supreme Court on Oct. 7, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

How SCOTUS erased abuse of LGBTQ kids

Amanda Marcotte
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump speak to reporters before touring a migrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Florida is MAGA's autocracy laboratory

Chauncey DeVega
Federal immigration agents near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on July 7, 2025. (Carlin Steihl/Los Angeles Times)

Trump tightens his authoritarian grip

Chauncey DeVega
Mavis Staples performs during the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Mavis Staples' gospel of resistance

Chauncey DeVega
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Pam Bondi, former Florida Attorney General, speaks during a press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump will target all Americans' rights

Chauncey DeVega
A protester holds a placard with the colours of the trans pride flag in support of a trans rights during the demonstration. (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dems' shameful retreat on trans rights

David Masciotra
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Decades of civil rights advancement gone

Peter Phillips
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press after signing two executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's opening assault on diversity

Tatyana Tandanpolie
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US President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

No one in MAGA cares about "merit"

Amanda Marcotte
Kamala Harris | US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Kamala can fight SCOTUS — and win

Paul Rosenberg
Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia within a John Trumbell painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Originalism": White supremacy in robes

Paul Rosenberg
André Holland in "The Big Cigar" (Apple TV+)

Hollywood, a fake film & Huey P. Newton

Nardos Haile
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