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

Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...

Bills have been introduced in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey this session.

The federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark civil rights law during one of most pivotal times in American history. Black Americans and their allies marched, lobbied and died for the vote ...

A commemoration earlier this month of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery. Sixty years ago, attacks on marchers in Selma helped lead to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act. Seeing federal ...

The bill seeks to counteract the damage inflicted by Supreme Court rulings that have severely weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), including Shelby County v. Holder (2013) and Brnovich v.

The House of Representatives chamber has been the site of some of history’s greatest strides for the freedom to vote. It’s ...

The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965. The annual commemoration pays homage to those who fought to secure voting rights for Black Americans ...

The suit argues that the county-wide system for county commission elections dilutes the power of Black voters and violated the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965. Despite around 31% of the county's ...

On Aug. 4, 1965, the United States Senate passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This “act to enforce the 15th Amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment ...

The bloodshed in Selma prompted President Lyndon B Johnson to push for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant pieces of legislation ever passed by Congress. The landmark Act ...

The bloody images of that day shared around the world helped to contribute to the larger movement’s achievement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, marking a pivotal turning point for racial ...