Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of ...

JACKSON, Miss. — A federal court yesterday ruled that remedial state Senate maps passed by the Legislature earlier this year still do not remedy unlawful vote dilution in the DeSoto County area. New ...

Sixty years ago, on March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights activists ... Mere weeks after the Edmund Pettus march, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was presented to Congress on March 17, 1965. President ...

On a mostly party-line basis, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives advanced the SAVE Act, a bill that would […] ...

Voting rights advocates say this would create enormous hurdles for poor people, rural residents, Black Americans, naturalized citizens, and the nearly 70 million women whose current legal names differ ...

Deuel Ross has written this fascinating article for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Here is the abstract: Voting is an act of faith. Faith that your vote will matter. Faith that ...

Weeks earlier, the Justice Department withdrew a request to take part in Monday's Supreme Court oral arguments for a Louisiana congressional redistricting case that some legal experts fear could ...

The historical marker commemorates the former pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Birmingham during the civil rights ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly probed whether there should be a time limit to the section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that’s ... the attorney representing civil rights groups, which ...