In Louisiana, lawmakers are making plans for new U.S. House districts after the Supreme Court last week struck down the state ...

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has often been called the crown jewel of the ...

Voter exclusion was never about men alone. And much is at stake for women in state and federal elections. On Wednesday, in a ...

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The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map, saying the Voting Rights Act doesn't allow the drawing of ...

A street corner on Detroit's west side now bears the name of a lesser-known civil rights activist whose work during the Selma Voting Rights Marches cost her her life. City and state officials on ...

What was born there was a new definition of who gets to be an American. And that legacy is under threat. We went back to Selma, Alabama, this year—not as dignitaries or guests at a ceremony, but as ...

“I’m a bed person a lot of the time when I get back home because I have to have my catch-up sleep,” says Blair. “I don’t know how to cook, but I do know how to sleep.” To blend her love for red carpet ...

Lawmakers in several southern states will meet this week to consider plans that could upend their congressional primaries and ...

In 1965, the event known as "Bloody Sunday" propelled the passage of the Voting Rights Act. People in Selma, Alabama, react to the recent Supreme Court decision that gutted many of its protections.