Ali Velshi breaks down the decades-long conservative crusade to dismantle the Voting Rights Act, which has been championed by ...

As Election Day approaches, columnist Mike Daly reflects on the Civil Rights Movement that was grounded in securing voting ...

The justices have shown a willingness to chip away at the landmark civil rights legislation. A Louisiana case could unravel much of its remaining power. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington In ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 1965, on a bridge in Selma, Alabama, Black Americans faced tear gas, billy clubs, and hatred as they marched for the right to vote. Police beat and bloodied them, yet they ...

WASHINGTON — The conservative-majority Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared open to again undermining the Voting Rights Act in a congressional redistricting case from Louisiana. The justices, who ...

WASHINGTON — The way Louisiana’s Republican leaders put it, the pervasive racial discrimination in elections that led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is all in the past. That is why they ...

WASHINGTON — Oral arguments wrapped earlier today in U.S. Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais, which concerns equal representation for Black voters in Louisiana and the role of race in redistricting ...

At a time when most of us are caught up in the maelstrom of national politics, it is essential to reflect on the government that most affects our day-to-day lives.

Court of Appeals Hears Newburgh VRA Challenge; Even Year Voting Law Upheld; Register Now for the November 14 Statewide Census Organizing Conference; VRA Preclearance; A Closer Look at Even Year Voting ...

Alex Rikleen speaks at the Lenox Town Democratic Committee on Wednesday. LENOX, Mass. — Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate ...

As the Wall Street Journal points out, Democrats have a nearly 65 percent disapproval rating, their worst showing in surveys in 35 years. And even on surveys of corruption, Republicans are doing ...