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 ...

The Conversation focuses on how the overall expansion of voting rights and a historical understanding of “We the People” ...

The case is being closely watched because at arguments in March several of the court’s conservative justices suggested they ...

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

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

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

Bazemore was represented by attorney James Walker Jr., a native of Ahoskie, one of the first Black graduates of UNC-Chapel ...

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

Los Angeles residents and experts say the National Guard's presence in Los Angeles in response to immigration protests is reminiscent of a long-standing dynamic in the state and around the country.

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

1901-02Dr. William F. Reid becomes the first black delegate in the Virginia General Assembly in 82 years. The Voting Rights Act permitted federal supervision of voter registration wherever fewer ...