The groups are working to educate voters in the South about how they would be affected if the court strikes down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.

The court is set to decide a major case that could scramble the country’s congressional maps. One crucial factor for this ...

Sometime between now and June, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could well spell the end of the landmark federal Voting Right Act. If what remains of ...

One of the last things that Smiley Anders put to paper was lamenting that we were still struggling with race relations. Right now, the U.S. Supreme Court is sitting on a case arising in Louisiana ...

He was one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

(Bloomberg) -- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark law enacted to enforce voting protections enshrined in the US Constitution and eliminate longstanding obstacles to voter participation. Now, ...

In 1965, there were only six Black lawmakers in the U.S. House and none in the Senate. There are now 60 Black voting members in the House (plus two nonvoting delegates) and five in the Senate. But ...

In big wins for civil liberties to protect abortion access and voting rights, and defy fearmongering, voters built the momentum needed to carry the fight forward to future elections. In big wins for ...