The Voting Rights Act was not racial favoritism. It was a protection created in response to a long and documented history of racial violence and exclusion. However, the United States Supreme Court in ...

For many Black Americans, the right to vote is sacred in a democracy, and when those entrusted to protect it undermine it, the betrayal cuts deeply.

Divided along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2006, issued a ruling that severely weakens a provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision, known as Section ...

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon ...

For decades, Black Floridians organized block by block to claim a right long denied to them — the vote. Civil rights leaders like Harry T. Moore and Mary McLeod Bethune built statewide networks to ...

It was signed into law by a president who had won election in one of the largest landslides in American history. It was subsequently reauthorized by Congress, after Congress, after Congress, after ...

SELMA, Alabama May 18 (Reuters) Betty Strong Boynton marched into history as a teenager in the 1960s, when she was among the hundreds of peaceful protesters attacked by club-wielding Alabama state ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean ...

The recent gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority will injure American democracy in ways that go far beyond the outcome of this year’s midterm elections.