Hearing about the recent Supreme Court decision altering the 1965 Voting Rights Act started me thinking about a local ...

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

The passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act marked what many historians mark as the actual beginning of democracy in the US.

As Republicans destroy historic Black-majority House districts in the South, they are being compared with segregationists ...

Press Robinson was part of a proud generation of young Black Americans who witnessed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) ...

The Supreme Court ruling said there must be proof that a racial group was “intentionally” disadvantaged. The dissent called ...

It took the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and its revisions decades later, to restore Black congressional representation in the ...

The high court says it’s OK to discriminate racially in drawing congressional districts as long as lawmakers are seeking ...

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” When the news broke ...

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has often been called the crown jewel of the U.S. civil rights movement. But under a U.S. Supreme Court led for two decades by ...

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 ...

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the civil rights movement. By Sonia A. Rao The Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of ...