Since the Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965, African Americans have been allowed to vote in elections for the past 60 years. After an oral argument in the Supreme Court that’s disputing a ...

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

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the monumental achievements of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency, was designed to not only eliminate voting barriers for African Americans, but also to ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices have indicated that they are set to strike down a portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The conservatives have expressed hostility to the portion of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades, the faces of American politics have grown more diverse by nearly every measure, especially as racial minority communities gained political representation after longtime ...

The U.S. Supreme Court may gut the Voting Rights Act, threatening Black political representation in Louisiana and reopening ...

The future of Black political representation is now at the mercy of the high court. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is one of the most important laws of our lifetime. The landmark civil rights law ...

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