The Voting Rights Act of 1965 stipulates that a violation by vote dilution would be in a circumstance where minorities had “less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate ...

First , there was “bloody Sunday” and “turnaround Tuesday,” then there was a rally in Boston in 1965 over housing ...

A federal judge has ruled that Spring Branch ISD’s system for electing school board trustees violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by diluting the Hispanic vote within the Houston district.

including enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), which has protected Americans’ right to vote since the civil rights era. Yet, in this time of uncertainty and national instability ...

To make the constitutional promises a reality, we needed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 24th Amendment barring poll taxes, the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 ...

But my fundamental premise is that before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which I think is the most important piece of legislation ever passed in American history, this was functionally an apartheid ...

We’ve seen this before. From literacy tests and poll taxes to the gutting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, every gain in voting rights has been met with efforts to roll them back. This is just ...

Boston celebrates the 60 year anniversary of 1965 Freedom Rally at a time when the Trump administration is waging war on DEI.

Chief Justice John Roberts all but pulled the equal-sovereignty doctrine out of thin air to gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965, in 2013. Just last year, the court effectively wrote the ...