President Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote isn’t that far from Jim Crow-era literacy tests, says Bea ...

Democrats know there's little chance the GOP-controlled Congress will pass bills to combat disparities, but pledge to keep ...

Congress can also pass election laws or override state legislation, as it did with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Yet Mr. Trump’s order, which follows a yearslong Republican push to tighten ...

President Trump pushed on Tuesday to hand the executive branch unprecedented influence over how federal elections are run, signing a far-reaching and legally dubious order to change U.S. voting rules.

Still, some Democratic lawmakers of color and others continue to introduce bills, hoping the measures garner some attention or that history books ... of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that requires ...

He’s authored three different books on democracy ... to elections is states’ rights. When Democrats tried to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act a few years ...

A federal judge ruled that Alabama could not prosecute doctors and reproductive health organizations for helping patients ...

This is an opinion column. If you have images in your head of Bloody Sunday in Selma, or the Selma-to-Montgomery march that ended at the State Capitol on this day 60 years ago, there’s a good chance ...

Her writings on democracy and feminism advocated for equal educational opportunities for Chinese women The post 442: Mabel Ping-Hua Lee rode on horseback for women’s suffrage appeared first on ...

The Jackson Home, originally in Selma, Alabama was a crucial place in the fight for true freedom for African-Americans.  It's ...

The SAVE Act bill seeks to amend how people register to vote. Here's how the new rules could affect American women.

This is the third video in the “State Voting Rights Acts: Explained” video series created by the Center for American Progress ...