President Trump’s executive order seeking broad changes to how elections are run in the U.S. holds the potential to reorder ...

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, ...

The Jackson Home, originally in Selma, Alabama was a crucial place in the fight for true freedom for African-Americans.  It's ...

The order is expected to face challenges in court by civil rights groups, which argue it will disenfranchise millions of voters.

Voting rights groups have expressed concerns that the requirement could disenfranchise people, including married women who ...

Gogoi, according to functionaries, faced a range of questions over the proposed law as well as the basic structure of the Constitution. Former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Tuesday told a ...

Sebi has reduced the processing time for rights issues to 23 days ... This was against the present average timeline of 317 days. This mechanism would be even faster than the preferential allotment ...

Countless pictures by renowned civil rights photographer Bob Adelman ... Anderson-Wright hopes that young people can view the voting registration history and strive to be engaged in the political ...

Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...