Amid the government’s sweeping attacks on the basic rights of the working class, the changes to electoral law could disenfranchise over 100,000 voters.

The Voting Rights Act was signed into law 60 years ago this week. What the law will look like when it reaches its 61st anniversary next year is a big question. The landmark piece of legislation … ...

Federal judges on Thursday ordered Alabama to continue using a court-selected congressional map for the rest of the decade.

A federal court ruled Alabama must use a court-ordered congressional map through 2030, ensuring fair representation for Black ...

Not all gerrymanders are enacted by authoritarians, but authoritarians use gerrymandering to rig elections and hold onto ...

The Supreme Court signaled its appetite to pull more teeth from the Voting Rights Act, rendering it all but biteless.

A major case now before the U.S. Supreme Court has some fearing that this year's anniversary of the Voting Rights Act may be ...

Seventy years ago, a coalition of young lawyers, activists, preachers and Americans of conscience joined together for a ...

On Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most consequential victories in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, ...

The act protected the right to vote and ensured the government would fight efforts to suppress it, especially those aimed ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the discriminatory practices against Black voters that were prevalent in many states. The ...