For decades, conservatives have worked to rollback the civil and voting rights that Martin Luther King Jr. upheld ...

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 ...

Mr. King is chair of the Drum Major Institute and the son of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mr. Ornstein is a retired scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. The future of the Voting Rights ...

Republicans renewed calls to pass the sweeping voting reform legislation in January 2026.

As Martin Luther King Jr. Day marks 40 years, we must renew our fight to preserve voting rights in New Jersey and beyond.

WINOOSKI, V.t (ABC22/FOX44)– On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Democratic leaders and voting rights advocates in Vermont came together to announce a new proposal aimed at protecting voting access across ...

In his reflections on Dēmos’ and NPQ’s Third Reconstruction series, Aron Goldman uplifts the call to look beyond the crises of today and envision a new path toward our collective liberation.

Two days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, we authored a piece for the Washington Post drawing on our expertise in Civil War and Reconstruction era political violence to contextualize ...

Back in 2013, the Supreme Court tossed out a key provision of the Voting Rights Act regarding federal oversight of elections. It appears poised to abolish another pillar of the law. In a case known as ...

Students at North Carolina A&T have filed a lawsuit against the state of North Carolina following the removal voter ...