At 105, Ruth Bradley McNeely-Wells cast her absentee ballot in Milwaukee's spring Supreme Court election, continuing her ...

The silence of Black MAGA supporters in the face of Trump’s and Vance’s bigotry during the campaign has carried over to the second Trump era.

Strom Thurmond bragged for years about dehydrating his body to prepare for his speech opposing the Civil Rights Act. He didn’t talk about his Black daughter, though.

Last night’s elections caused some shakeups in the suburbs. Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, facing his first hometown election since losing his 2022 gubernatorial bid, conceded to challenger Ald. John ...

On Tuesday at 7:19 p.m., Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) surpassed the late South Carolina segregationist Strom Thurmond’s ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march—one of the most defining moments in the U.S. civil ...

Two Black voters remain in the lawsuit against the county, but the county is now requesting that the case be dismissed.

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

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

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

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