The new legislation would require American citizens to produce documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to ...

Voting rights for women, immigrants, Blacks, Native Americans and soldiers went through many changes beginning in the late 1800s, up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Dr. Rachel ...

Black Louisianians’ yearslong battle for equal voting representation makes its third appearance at the Supreme Court next ...

In the early centuries, women partaking in any decision-making was only a fiction. This is displayed in the long years it ...

Her photo, beaten and bloody, became a galvanizing cry to guarantee voting rights for Black Americans. And the day of peaceful protest that devolved into state-sanctioned violence was coined ...

It is part of SCOTUSblog’s 2020 Election Litigation Tracker, a joint project with Election Law at Ohio State. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is widely considered to be the single most important federal ...

Civil rights leaders and elected officials commemorated on Friday the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day voting and civil rights activists were violently beaten and injured by law ...

The Rev. C.T. Vivian was a renowned civil rights leader who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. The Voting Rights Act is considered one of the most comprehensive pieces of civil rights ...