By Donna Bryson SELMA, Alabama, May 18 (Reuters) - Betty Strong Boynton marched into history as a teenager in the 1960s, when ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was signed into law by a president who had won election in one of the largest landslides in American history. It was ...

This August marked the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – the landmark United States federal law that banned racial discrimination in voting. But six decades later, many of its ...

In 1965, Black Americans peacefully demonstrated for voting rights and were beaten by Alabama state troopers before returning ...

We have to respond as quickly as possible,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in an interview. Johnson’s 117-year-old ...

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The US Supreme Court is aiding and abetting voter suppression. America’s Southern sons of perdition and their Northern ...

The Left is good at theater. The Supreme Court’s April 29 decision in Louisiana v. Callais reinterpreted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and cleared the way for states to redraw majority-minority ...

Voting has become the most frequently practiced and revered civic duty of everyday Americans. Over 700,000 cast ballots across Philadelphia in November for president and other offices. While our city ...

Historians talk Voting Rights Act ruling impact on Black youth ...