Both Texas Republicans and Democrats are ratcheting up their rhetoric over proposed U.S. House maps that could give the GOP ...

As the Voting Rights Act turns 60, its legacy is under siege—from courts, lawmakers, and a government retreating from ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the discriminatory practices against Black voters that were prevalent in many states.

As Illinois shelters Texas Democrats who fled their state to stop a redistricting vote, Gov. JB Pritzker appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where the host confronted him with ...

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

WASHINGTON — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with ...

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

Sixty years ago today – August 6, 1965 – President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965, giving a ...

Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), who has vowed to protect Texas Democrats who fled their state over GOP redistricting efforts, ...