Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...

August 6 is the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Let us honor the sacrifices of the past by recommitting ourselves ...

That is precisely what the Supreme Court did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The ...

The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.

Discover the significance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as it turns 60. Learn about the ongoing fight for voter rights and ...

The Voting Rights Act was signed 60 years ago today. It was the culmination of a hard-fought campaign by civil rights activists in the South. Now, a Georgia Democrat in Congress is leading the push to ...

Wednesday will mark the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark piece of legislation that was signed ...

On Monday, as part of “Closer Look’s” week-long special programming examining implications of the Voting Rights Act, host ...

Museums across the U.S. have artifacts on display that represent and reflect landmark events of the Civil Rights era.

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in the 1960s calling for Black voting rights has been ...

The Supreme Court will hear a case over the creation of minority-majority congressional districts under the Voting Rights Act as states weigh redistricting.

It might sound radical, because only two states — Maine and Vermont — allow people with felony convictions to vote from ...