Native American tribes in North Dakota challenged a state legislative map they said dilutes their voting power. An appeals ...

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

The Supreme Court paused a lower court's ruling that would have weakened the Voting Rights Act on Thursday, granting Native ...

The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act was introduced last week by more than 200 House Democrats ahead of the anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On March 7, 1965, voting rights marchers walked ...

The order guarantees voters, at least for now, the ability to sue to enforce rights guaranteed under the landmark 1965 law.

A federal appeals court on Monday overturned a lower court ruling that had prevented enforcement of an Arkansas law limiting ...

Locally, the renewal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the topic of discussion at the 13th annual Judge Theodore McMillian Black History Month Dinner held recently at the Renaissance Grand Hotel.

Gary May talks about the city of Selma, Alabama and its role in the 1965 voting rights fight for African Americans. He also spoke about the movie [Selma] and some of the historical inaccuracies in ...

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

Within two years, Congress passed and President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, creating an extraordinary solution to Southern discrimination that consigned some states and ...

Georgia County Debacle Shows Why We Need a Voting-Rights Act With TeethIt took an army of lawyers, activists, journalists, and citizens to provide the scrutiny the Voting Rights Act of 1965 used ...

Nicole Austin-Hillery and Hans von Spakovsky talked about the origin of the Voting Rights Act, which President Johnson signed the act into law on August 6, 1965, and state voter identification laws.