Elijah Cummings: “The time has come for Congress to change course and to focus on reality instead of myths and inaccurate rhetoric.”

On my mother's dying bed, 92 years old, former sharecropper, her last words were, 'Do not let them take our votes away from us.' She had fought and seen people harmed, beaten, trying to vote. Talk about inalienable rights. Voting is…

Asian Americans are often still seen as outsiders, as foreigners, as aliens.

That year, Bayou La Batre did elect its first Asian-American city council member.

It is only recently in the last 50 years or so that many of these laws have changed.