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

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to an immediate wave of Black voter participation. 60 years later, that participation is ...

The Supreme Court has been whittling away the VRA’s legal protections for years. Now it's poised to reconsider one of the act ...

President Donald Trump asked Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) to call the state legislature in for a special session where they could ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Federal appeals found that the state’s voter ID requirements for mail-in ballots do not violate the Civil Rights Act.