The redistricting campaign by lawmakers in the Lone Star State, orchestrated at the behest of President Donald Trump, is yet ...

The nation is marking the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark ...

WASHINGTON ‒ On the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil right lawyers and scholars warn those rights are in danger again.

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is in Russia to discuss the war in Ukraine ahead of a deadline for peace. And, today marks ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil ...

The Voting Rights Act was signed into law 60 years ago but has been slowly eroding for more than a decade. That erosion ...

The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block.

"This Court has been extraordinarily unfriendly to the Voting Rights Act over the last couple of decades," a voting rights expert told Newsweek.

The Supreme Court delayed ruling on a Louisiana congressional redistricting case that some legal experts say could end up further weakening protections against maps that dilute minority voters' power.

The Voting Rights Act's legacy is under threat. Maryland's proposed Voting Rights Act could protect fair representation and voting rights for all.

Yet, with the New Jersey voting rights act still awaiting its next hearing, New Jersey legislators have their collective foot off the gas. Despite the state of emergency for our democracy, we ...