The Supreme Court justices gave an ominous prelude to next term, when voting rights — another pillar of a strong democracy — ...

Sixty years ago this summer, Congress enacted the nation-transforming Voting Rights Act. Soon, however, Congress and a ...

Courts have recognized a “private right of action” in the Voting Rights Act since the law’s inception. In 1966, a dispute ...

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...

Labor and civil rights leader A. Phillip Randolph initially rejects a plea by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to call off the ...

In this moment of constitutional crisis, these books provide a clear picture of the highest court in the land.

The testimony concluded a two-day evidentiary hearing over the law, known as SB 129, before U.S. District Judge R. David ...

A young janitor’s role in thwarting an attempted bombing in 1958 is the latest addition to an Alabama oral history project ...

Black Americans’, our’ relationship to this annual holiday has always been fraught. In 1852, nearly a century after the ...

The Supreme Court punted on Friday in a major legal challenge to Louisiana’s long-litigated congressional map, taking the ...

Residents and experts say the response is reminiscent of a longstanding dynamic in the state and around the country.

So now we live in a time when Americans in power ignore the Constitution and curtail freedom of speech, freedom of assembly ...