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Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed to have committed his whole life to civil rights on Sunday during a speech at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.  

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) got into another heated confrontation over the issue of busing to desegregate public schools at the second Democrat presidential debate on Wednesday. 

A former doctor for President Barack Obama claimed that Joe Biden, the Democrat frontrunner, “looked frail” when confronted by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) over his record on civil rights at the first Democrat presidential debate last month.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is being accused of neglecting his longstanding relationships with African American leaders in South Carolina.

Former Vice President Joe Biden leads the field of 2020 Democrats in every early state, according to a series of new polls.

Former Vice President Joe Biden dominates the 2020 field throughout the South, according to a series of new polls out of the region.

The newly announced lineup for the second Democrat presidential debate sets up a showdown between former Vice President Joe Biden, the purported frontrunner, and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed that busing to achieve school integration would lead to his children being raised in a “racial jungle.” 

Thousands of documents pertaining to former Vice President Joe Biden’s 40-year career in the U.S. Senate are unlikely to become public until after the 2020 election.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called out former Vice President Joe Biden for not knowing how to apologize after praising segregationists and for “struggling to convey respect for women.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden assailed one of his fellow Senate colleagues as a “dirty bastard” and a “son of a bitch” for blocking a major anti-busing bill in 1977.

David Axelrod,  a former top aide to President Barack Obama, lambasted Joe Biden on Saturday for having waited weeks to apologize for praising avowed segregationists. 

Former First Lady Michelle Obama refused to defend Joe Biden as the former vice president is engulfed in controversy for his longstanding views on busing and his more recent praise of segregationists.

President Donald Trump weighed in on the mounting controversies that have engulfed former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) have surged past former Vice President Joe Biden in Iowa after the first Democrat presidential debate.

Rev. Jesse Jackson undercut the defense former Vice President Joe Biden has been making about his longstanding opposition to busing.

Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, jumped to defend former Vice President Joe Biden after the latter’s record on civil rights became a target at the first Democrat presidential debate.

Rev. Jesse Jackson criticized former Vice President Joe Biden for not using the platform provided by the first Democrat presidential debate to address his record on race and civil rights.

The Club for Growth is launching a five figure ad buy highlighting former Vice President Joe Biden’s record on race, including clips from his recent performance at the first Democrat presidential debate on Thursday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden told black leaders to “move beyond” the issue of busing to desegregate public schools ahead of his first presidential run.

Campaign surrogates for former Vice President Joe Biden struggled to defend their candidate’s performance after the first Democratic debate on Thursday night.

The Club for Growth will run an ad in Iowa during the first Democrat presidential debate highlighting former Vice President Joe Biden’s record on race.

Former Vice President Joe Biden exaggerated his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement during his first presidential run. 

Former Vice President Joe Biden invoked the late-Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-SC), a former segregationist, while addressing the South Carolina Democrat Party’s convention on Saturday. 

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) blasted former Vice President Joe Biden over his praise for segregationists on Friday, saying he had proven “woefully ignorant” of the “black American experience.” 

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Hardball on Monday that President Donald Trump “feels at home with” recent acts of racist violence, citing Trump’s comments on the Charlottesville riots in 2017 as proof.

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN Films is developing a documentary on civil rights icon and Georgia congressman John Robert Lewis.

Peter Kirsanow explained how Obama-era education policies led to racial and ethnic school disciplinary quotas.

President Donald Trump delivered a proclamation Friday on the 199th birthday of Susan B. Anthony – a leader of the women’s suffrage movement and advocate for the human rights of all – born and unborn.

Civil rights icon Barbara Jordan warned more than two decades ago of mass immigration’s impact on black Americans. To this day, her reforms to aid the black community have remained unfulfilled. 

A federal school safety commission led by members of the Trump administration is recommending that the Departments of Justice and Education rescind the Obama-era school policy that urged more lenient forms of discipline in public schools for students of color and those of other minority groups.

Ocasio-Cortez compared her election win to some of the U.S.’s most historic accomplishments, including NASA’s first manned moon landing.

Parents in a Sacramento, California suburban school district were shocked this week to discover that Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom, the Democratic Party candidate for governor in November, was portrayed in a first-grade textbook as a “champion for people’s rights.”

If you like what you’ve seen Democrats do in the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, you’re going to love what they do if they win the 2018 midterm elections.

“WATCH: Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools,” Carranza tweeted.

Attorney Harmeet Dhillon argued during a Breitbart News Sunday appearance on SiriusXM that conservatives need to use the legal system to defend their civil rights.