Lawmakers are working to create a state-level version of the act as the US high court decides on latest voting rights case ...

How Black representation at every level of government could be gutted if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a key provision ...

Back in 2013, the Supreme Court tossed out a key provision of the Voting Rights Act regarding federal oversight of elections.

Section two of the Voting Rights Act allows plaintiffs to sue states for drawing districts that dilute the power of minority ...

In hinting at “nationalizing” elections, Trump suggests a world in which minorities would have more difficulty voting than any time since 1965.

This past summer my partner, Joan, and I walked up a small Adirondack peak, Goodman Mountain. A decade ago, the mountain was renamed for slain civil rights worker Andrew Goodman, who, together with ...

In October, one of the most consequential cases before the Supreme Court began. Six white justices, two Blacks and one Latina took the bench for arguments in Louisiana v. Callais. Addressing a core ...

Sister Mary Antona Ebo, a Franciscan Sister of Mary, is pictured in the front row at the center with her superior, Sister Eugene Marie Smith, as they march in Selma, Ala., March 10, 1965, to support ...

One of the last things that Smiley Anders put to paper was lamenting that we were still struggling with race relations. Right now, the U.S. Supreme Court is sitting on a case arising in Louisiana ...

In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court of the United States has the opportunity to stop the separation, division, and segregation that federal courts are sanctioning in redistricting cases ...