Footage from key moments in the history of the Voting Rights Act.Credit... Supported by By Audra D. S. Burch Emily Cochrane and Jamie Leventhal The Voting Rights Act, among the most consequential ...
As Republicans destroy historic Black-majority House districts in the South, they are being compared with segregationists ...
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Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon ...
In a 6-3 decision on Wednesday, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district, ...
The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect ...
On Feb. 27, Columbia University announced it had reached an agreement with StandWithUS Center for Legal Justice, Students Against Antisemitism Inc. and a number of Columbia students. The agreement ...
In another leadership change at the top of a University of Texas college, Dean JR DeShazo will leave the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the end of this academic year. DeShazo has led ...
(Nairobi) – A bill before Uganda’s parliament that proposes sweeping controls over “foreign funding” and political activity threatens fundamental rights and could be used to shut down civil society, ...
When the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision on April 29 that all but invalidates the Voting Rights Act, legal and voting-rights analysts called it a knockout blow to a powerful tool against ...
After the Kangaroo Supreme Court stripped away key sections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, MAGA influencer and resident scumbag Steve Bannon said the South was the people who had been oppressed ...
Republicans have accused the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for investigating hate groups, of unfairly targeting conservative and Christian organizations. By Devlin Barrett Reporting ...