Six decades later, Black ... Rights Act after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted key provisions intended to safeguard racial discrimination in voting. “Seemingly every day, we see new efforts to roll back ...

President Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote isn’t that far from Jim Crow-era literacy tests, says Bea ...

Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...

The writer explores the historical journey of racial politics in America, tracing the path from the oppression of Black ...

The Global Black Economic Forum and Election Protection are highlighting changemakers working to safeguard democracy ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly probed whether there should be a time limit to the section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that’s aimed at preventing the dilution of power of the Black vote.

Under the Trump administration, the Justice Department has stepped away from some voting rights lawsuits, leaving behind a ...

The Herald-Leader is celebrating Lexington’s 250th birthday by revisiting key moments in the city’s vibrant history, ...

Voting rights for women, immigrants, Blacks, Native Americans and soldiers went through many changes beginning in the late 1800s, up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Dr. Rachel ...

Black Louisianians’ yearslong battle for equal voting representation makes its third appearance at the Supreme Court next ...

Born into enslavement in Tennessee, Gillespie resettled in Milwaukee by the mid-1850s and challenged local officials who ...