President Donald Trump has issued an executive order titled "Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy" that ...

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

But my fundamental premise is that before the 1965 Voting Rights Act ... Some of them I quite like, like the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That was a good law. I also like the Sherman Antitrust Act.

The legendary attorney who was once deemed the "chief counsel" of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...

A former Biden Department of Justice official who prosecuted pro-life dads is teaching a “civil rights boot camp” at the ...

His work helped push forward milestone legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In his final years, King turned his attention toward economic justice and ...

The Trump administration has ordered the Department of Justice to cease all involvement in civil rights cases, including enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), which has protected ...

The legislature’s redrawing of the Hattiesburg area — which was not challenged by the plaintiffs — and the Chickasaw/Monroe ...

And it’s not just democracy advocates who support this move — two-thirds of Coloradans agree. A new poll from the State ...

Legendary Civil Rights Attorney Fred Gray Honored ... in Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, which led to the Voting Rights Act in August later that year. On Thursday, Gray emphasized ...