The Supreme Court last week announced it wants to reconsider one of the core assumptions behind the Voting Rights Act: ...

President Donald Trump asked Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) to call the state legislature in for a special session where they could ...

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...

The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.

The Voting Rights Act was signed 60 years ago today. It was the culmination of a hard-fought campaign by civil rights activists in the South. Now, a Georgia Democrat in Congress is leading the push to ...

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha claims that minorities, Dalits and adivasis are facing the risk of losing their voting ...

Doug Chalmers said it was ‘inappropriate for the government of the day to seek to guide the work of the independent electoral ...

It might sound radical, because only two states — Maine and Vermont — allow people with felony convictions to vote from ...

Seventeen years ago, my family and I voted for Barack Obama, America’s first Black president. Back then, I had a say and a ...

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches calling for Black voting rights is being reconstructed in its entirety at a museum near Detroit.

Museums across the U.S. have artifacts on display that represent and reflect landmark events of the Civil Rights era.

The intricate operation to move and preserve the Jackson Home and other artifacts from the Civil Rights era preceded ...