Voting Rights Act
The NAACP cited the Supreme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act as one of the key motivators for its record spending ahead of the midterms.
Megyn Kelly took to her white nationalist soapbox to once again demonstrate that she's angry, she's racist, and she doesn't know what she's talking about.
U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ordered DHS to stop allowing states to use a centralized national database of citizens built for checking immigration status to screen their voter rolls.
While Republican-led state legislatures rushed to draw new congressional maps to protect their House majority, voter anger may derail those efforts.
From Reconstruction to affirmative action, gains for Black Americans have a history of triggering efforts to repeal them.
The Georgia state legislature was set to convene on Wednesday for a special session focused on redistricting, called by Gov. Brian Kemp.
Congress has to restore and modernize the Voting Rights Act with protections responsive to contemporary suppression tactics.
Last-minute redistricting in Southern states has caused confusion and disenfranchisement for candidates and voters, with racial gerrymandering a major issue.
Former Nets player Derrick Coleman will still be inducted into the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame despite not attending the ceremony.
After Calvin Duncan was elected to be Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court, Louisiana’s state legislature hastily moved to eliminate the office.
Black youth are being placed at the center of a civil rights fight, and their bodies, choices, futures, and labor are being asked to carry the moral weight of a nation’s failure.
The South Carolina House passed a new map eliminating the district held by Rep. James Clyburn, but the map failed twice in the state Senate.
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