Texas GOP's plan to redraw its map mid-decade sparked legal threats, Hatch Act claims, and fears of a national redistricting ...

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

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

Both Texas Republicans and Democrats are ratcheting up their rhetoric over proposed US House maps that could give the GOP ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later an atomic bomb hit ...

August 6 is the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Let us honor the sacrifices of the past by recommitting ourselves ...

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.