The Voting Rights Act, among the most consequential pieces of U.S. civil rights legislation, was signed into law in August ...

The majority said the law was a victim of its own success and no longer needed. Dissenters responded that Congress should ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining major provision of the ...

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Louisiana must redraw a congressional map that was designed to create a second majority-Black district in the state, where African Americans have long faced ...

For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the ...

Andrew Young, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. for voting rights, has strong words for the Supreme Court but tells CNN ...

In a video posted to social media, Charlie Kirk denied that he called for the Civil Rights Act to be overturned. He has a track record of suggesting otherwise. Racist conspiracy theorist ...

The Justice Department has fired at least four prosecutors who were involved in prosecutions under the FACE Act during the Biden administration, a government official familiar with the firings told ...

Civil rights activist Leslie McLemore reflects on the recent Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act, and what the ruling means for Black political representation in the South.

The Supreme Court weakened Section 2, the linchpin of the 1965 civil rights legislation that prohibits diluting the electoral ...

The Supreme Court has weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which was designed to outlaw discriminatory voting practices to make the voting playing field equal for Black people.