Last November, the new majority-Black 6th district voted in U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields. The district, in its previous, ...

Discover how organizations like Black Women Unmuted, ColorComm, and African Women in Media are supporting Black women ...

Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms ...

Wisconsin's April 1 election includes a high-stakes Supreme Court race and plenty of local offices, but a statewide referendum question on Wisconsin's voter ID law at the bottom of the ballot has ...

Lancaster city residents and activists demanded greater police accountability and the termination of several police officers ...

There was shockingly low voter turnout for the 2025 Cook County races, even though local government has a greater impact on citizens than federal.

Alternative electoral systems—such as ranking systems or list-based proportional systems—could enhance representation in the ...

Volunteers from SCOPE, a program that utilized college kids to lead voter registration drives in 1965, gathered for Bloody ...

Virginia is the state with the second-highest number of federal employees, most of whom are expressing anxiety about being unemployed and losing what many saw as sinecures. In either event, pundits ...

If she wins in November, Winsome Earle-Sears will be Virginia's first female governor and the first black woman to be elected governor in the United States.

Democrats are eager to see former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) jump into the Tar Heel State’s Senate race next year, seeing him as the most formidable challenger to Sen. Thom Tillis ...