The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect ...

Congress wrote and passed the 1965 law "because of the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, who were racially ...

A landmark ruling against the state of Louisiana has upended one of the major sections of the Voting Rights Act ...

The Voting Rights Act was not racial favoritism. It was a protection created in response to a long and documented history of ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday hollowed out a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in ...

Voting has become the most frequently practiced and revered civic duty of everyday Americans. Over 700,000 cast ballots across Philadelphia in November for president and other offices. While our city ...

Latest ruling is culmination of Justices Roberts and Alito’s campaign to slowly but surely strangle efforts to protect democratic rights of Black and other minority Americans ...

The Rev. Joe Carter was the first African American since 1902 to register to vote in West Feliciana Parish in 1963, but he was not alone. Countless pictures by renowned civil rights photographer Bob ...

Voting rights was a topic of spirited debate at California’s first Constitutional Convention. The 48 delegates gathered in Monterey in the fall of 1849 argued over whether to extend the right to vote ...

The Rhode Island Voting Rights Act (RIVRA) is being proposed to protect and expand voting rights within the state. Advocates ...

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon ...