Lawmakers are working to create a state-level version of the act as the US high court decides on latest voting rights case ...

Commentary: Chief Justice John Roberts has tried for years to weaken the Voting Rights Act. With a coming Supreme Court decision, he may finally get his wish.

Under court order, Louisiana redrew to create a second majority-Black district-one that finally gave true representation to the community where my family lives. But now, that district-and the entire ...

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices and became one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement, some political observers assert that ...

The Brooklyn Bar Association and the Caribbean American Lawyers Association hosted a continuing legal education seminar on voter suppression on Tuesday with a pair of local attorneys and a history ...

Martin Luther King’s son and Norm Ornstein, a leading scholar of voting rights, discuss a case that could hollow out the Voting Rights Act.

In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court of the United States has the opportunity to stop the separation, division, and segregation that federal courts are sanctioning in redistricting cases ...

I am a 23-year-old Black man from Cobb County, Georgia, and it cost me $64 to vote in the Georgia primary elections. Let me explain. As a recent college graduate working out-of-state before starting ...

Sister Mary Antona Ebo, a Franciscan Sister of Mary, is pictured in the front row at the center with her superior, Sister Eugene Marie Smith, as they march in Selma, Ala., March 10, 1965, to support ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a forceful and impassioned defense of the Voting Rights Act here on Monday, condemning laws and other moves in some states that she said are reviving ...

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 ...