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

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

The nation is marking the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark ...

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

Civil rights activists fought for the Voting Rights Acts 60 years ago. Some worry the law's protections are now at risk.

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil ...

When 1965 began, federal voting rights legislation was far from the minds of most in Washington. After all, Congress had just ...

Six decades later, as key protections erode and courts revisit core provisions, civil rights groups, legal experts and organizers are fighting to protect this essential pillar of democracy.

The latest order from the Supreme Court reminds us that the court exercises significant control over its docket and is ...

Republicans are increasingly bullish they can whittle away at the Voting Rights Act (VRA) as Democrats renew a long-shot ...

The Voting Rights Act was signed 60 years ago today. It was the culmination of a hard-fought campaign by civil rights activists in the South. Now, a Georgia Democrat in Congress is leading the push to ...

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