The Voting Rights Act was not racial favoritism. It was a protection created in response to a long and documented history of racial violence and exclusion. However, the United States Supreme Court in ...

A landmark ruling against the state of Louisiana has upended one of the major sections of the Voting Rights Act ...

In a 6-3 decision Wednesday, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district, ruling it an unconstitutional gerrymander. The ruling has significant implications ...

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 ...

For many Black Americans, the right to vote is sacred in a democracy, and when those entrusted to protect it undermine it, the betrayal cuts deeply.

After recently weakening the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court avoided for now taking up a legal question that may ...

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 ...

Callais is the culmination of decades of its rulings limiting the Voting Rights Act. No one, including the court’s majority, ...

(This story has been refiled to remove the video) By Donna Bryson SELMA, Alabama, May 18 (Reuters) - Betty Strong Boynton ...

As the Voting Rights Act faces new threats, old tools of disenfranchisement are being repackaged for a new era.

The Louisiana v. Callais ruling has spurred congressional redistricting, but could also make it harder for communities of ...