The fight over Black political power in the South continues to unfold across states haunted by slavery, segregation and ...

The Voting Rights Act was not racial favoritism. It was a protection created in response to a long and documented history of racial violence and exclusion. However, the United States Supreme Court in ...

For many Black Americans, the right to vote is sacred in a democracy, and when those entrusted to protect it undermine it, the betrayal cuts deeply.

(This story has been refiled to remove the video) By Donna Bryson SELMA, Alabama, May 18 (Reuters) - Betty Strong Boynton ...

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 ...

Divided along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2006, issued a ruling that severely weakens a provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision, known as Section ...

The history of voting rights in the United States Constitution was discussed during the League of Women Voters semiquincentennial speaker series on Wednesday at Creative 360. This was the second ...

For decades, Black Floridians organized block by block to claim a right long denied to them — the vote. Civil rights leaders like Harry T. Moore and Mary McLeod Bethune built statewide networks to ...

This story was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide ...