An estimated 69 million American women and 4 million men do not have a birth certificate that matches their current legal ...

Amelia Boynton Robinson is a civil rights icon who, while not born in Alabama, impacted the lives of people across the state ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly probed whether there should be a time limit to the section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that’s aimed at preventing the dilution of power of the Black vote.

Noting that nearly a third of Louisiana’s voters are black, the court ruled that the first map violated section two of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by diluting black voters’ power.

With the intervention of the courts, a third march finally made it all the way to Montgomery and galvanized the nation and Congress behind the 1965 Voting Rights Act. These civil rights heroes had ...