Activists would gather here to plan protests and civil rights efforts, and this church was the original meeting place before the march. On the steps of the chapel before the march to Selma, speakers ...

President Donald Trump's new executive order aimed at tightening up election administration has triggered a wave of concern among voting-rights advocates who say it will likely make casting a ...

The restrictions, if signed into law by Estonia's president, would ban non-EU citizens from voting and allow the stateless ...

Sixty years ago, attacks on marchers in Selma helped lead to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act. Seeing federal courts slash away at the Voting Rights Act, some states are seeking to ...

The move, which is likely to face swift challenges from voting rights organizations, is consistent with Trump’s long history of railing against election processes. He often claims elections are ...

Organizers say the protests are a response to Trump and congressional Republicans’ efforts to gut essential programs like healthcare, Social Security, public education and civil rights ...

In Allen v. Milligan (2023), the Court ruled that Alabama’s congressional maps violated the Voting Rights Act’s protections against racial gerrymandering, and that the state must draw an ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly probed whether there should be a time limit to the section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that’s aimed at preventing the dilution of power of the Black vote.

And, even more troublingly, the conservative supermajority’s questions made clear that Louisiana’s remedial map may not be the only thing in danger: The Voting Rights Act itself may also be on ...