The Voting Rights Act's legacy is under threat. Maryland's proposed Voting Rights Act could protect fair representation and ...

A bill dubbed the "Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act," or SAVE Act, mandates that individuals provide proof of U.S.

The SAVE Act would gut third-party voter registration, a method more often used by Black and brown voters and other groups ...

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

If there were any doubts about the human capacity to marginalize and suppress, Elaine Weiss’ “Spell Freedom” is an excellent reminder. From the lead-up to 1954 — when the U.S. Supreme Court handed ...

From racial terror to literacy tests to modern-day voter suppression, efforts to silence Black political power have never stopped.

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

John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.

Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the ...

Montgomery march galvanized this nation to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But 60 years later, voter suppression endures.

Former Taguig mayor and congressional candidate Lino Cayetano said he will appeal a decision by a Regional Trial Court that ...

While research from the 1990s on minority-opportunity districts did not find consistent turnout effects, more recent analysis ...