The state of Georgia is seeking another Supreme Court showdown over the Voting Rights Act, asking a federal appeals court on ...

Voting has become the most frequently practiced and revered civic duty of everyday Americans. Over 700,000 cast ballots across Philadelphia in November for president and other offices.

A New York appeals court has reversed a ruling from a judge that struck down a state voting rights law designed to protect the political voice of minority groups.

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil rights movement. The protests he organized, the marches he led and the ...

By T.J. Ray Columnist When four high school seniors showed up in the Circuit Clerk’s office one bright day, everything was ...

Both plans pack Black voters into a small number of majority-Black districts and crack other Black communities across other districts to prevent them from forming an effective voting bloc. As a result ...

After the U.S. Department of Justice froze civil rights actions, Hazleton officials didn’t raise their hopes too high that ...

As documented by the Brennan Center for Justice, a public policy institute at the New York University School of Law, “Thus far in 2024, … at least 301 restrictive [anti-voter] ...

A newly filed lawsuit by the Department of Justice argues the way Houston County elects its county commission violates the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965, hurting Black voters' ability to elect ...

The state of Georgia is seeking another Supreme Court showdown over the Voting Rights Act, asking a federal appeals court on Thursday to interpret the 1965 law in a way that could make it much ...