Last November, the new majority-Black 6th district voted in U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields. The district, in its previous, ...
Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms ...
These 10 remarkable individuals are upholding John Lewis' tradition of making “good trouble” in the name of securing voting ...
declaring segregation unconstitutional — to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, white Southerners escalated their campaign of intimidation and violence to keep Black voters from the ...
An illustration of Black people in line to vote. Harper's Weekly Magazine. At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency in 1868, Americans were struggling to reconstruct a nation ...
Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...
They fed, protected and housed activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights.
But the Rev. C.T. Vivian's signal achievement may have been the Voting Rights Act, enacted almost 60 years ago, on Aug. 6, 1965. It addressed legal barriers preventing Black people from exercising ...
If conservatives want black people voting for Republicans to keep lasting, they are going to have to become a bit less sensitive.
The financial realities counties face must be balanced with the need to ensure as many people as possible can legally ...