The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Black workers will feel it first. But if history is any guide, none of us will be spared.

Ever since the recent decision of the Supreme Court limiting the use of race in drawing congressional districts, there has been a steady drumbeat of criticism claiming that the ruling somehow took ...

A landmark ruling against the state of Louisiana has upended one of the major sections of the Voting Rights Act More than 60 years after the Voting Rights Act became the law of the land, the United ...

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to fortify the 15th Amendment, which gave Black men the right to vote, and end longstanding discriminatory practices that prevented them from voting. These ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a voting rights bill Thursday that supporters said would counter changes to the federal ...

Red states aren’t just gerrymandering away voting rights—they’re working overtime to suppress the vote in as many ways as possible. Ad Policy People wait in line at a polling station on the final day ...

Dennis Dahmer was 12 years old in January 1966 when Klansmen stormed his family home and set it on fire, murdering his father, Vernon. He still remembers the shootout; he remembers watching his father ...

While Republican-led Southern states race to redo their congressional maps after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination, the decision's ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Thousands gathered in Montgomery to protest dismantled voting-rights protections, vowing ‘we won’t go back’ as ...

Minority voters are left with limited alternatives for combatting racial discrimination in redistricting, after the U.S. Supreme Court's latest undermining of the federal Voting Rights Act. Remaining ...

Two Alabama cities that became the epicenter of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement are again in the national spotlight as thousands travel to Montgomery and Selma in a call to action against efforts that ...