The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing ...

The racially and politically charged case – one of the biggest the court will decide this term − grew from a long battle over ...

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to fortify the 15th Amendment, which gave Black men the right to vote, and end ...

The court Supreme Court is telling us that self-confessed discrimination is the only kind that’s forbidden.

We gauge reaction in the Deep South to the Supreme Court ruling that could upend Black representation in Congress.

The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining major provision of the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — We are now hearing from Oklahoma civil rights leaders after the US Supreme Court dealt a blow to the ...

A generation of Black Americans across the South fought in courtrooms and in the streets during the Civil Rights Movement to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday hollowed out a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere, striking down a majority Black ...

SELMA, Ala. — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns about the ...

Civil rights activist Leslie McLemore reflects on the recent Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act, and what the ruling means for Black political representation in the South.