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From restrictive legislation to inaccessible polling places, barriers persist that undermine the rights of voters with disabilities.
The notion that we are living through a "state of emergency" is not simply a rhetorical flourish. It is an honest reckoning ...
July 17 marked the fifth anniversary of the passing of Rep. John Lewis. To honor this legend of the Civil Rights movement, ...
President Donald Trump wants Texas to squeeze out five more Republican seats in the U.S. House to shore up the GOP majority ...
The order guarantees voters, at least for now, the ability to sue to enforce rights guaranteed under the landmark 1965 law.
The Supreme Court paused a lower court's ruling that would have weakened the Voting Rights Act on Thursday, granting Native ...
Turns out only half of the Republican justices want to kill off the Voting Rights Act.
Native American tribes in North Dakota challenged a state legislative map they said dilutes their voting power. An appeals ...
On the fifth anniversary of the freedom fighter’s death, Franklin Park in Northwest, D.C. was one of more than 1,600 ...
(CNN) — Here is a look at the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which serves to protect and enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments. It was enacted in response to voter suppression in the 1960s by state ...
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent In its most urgent warning to date, the National Urban League ...
The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block.