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The Voting Rights Act Marks Its 60th Anniversary as Its Core Provisions Are Being Eroded
Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him, signed the Voting Rights Act into law. The act protected the right to vote and ensured the government would fight efforts to suppress it,
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...
Maryland voting rights advocacy groups are optimistic about the change to the Baltimore City Board of Elections leadership ...
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The Trump DOJ is taking aim at illegal race-based gerrymandering and voter roll issues, Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet ...
The Voting Rights Act led to sweeping change across the American South as discriminatory voting practices were dismantled and ...
We cannot deny our ugly history with racial discrimination in this country, especially as it pertains to access to the ...
This is the final video in the “State Voting Rights Acts: Explained” video series created by the Center for American Progress ...
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...
On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Eddie Glaude reflects on Way Too Early on the irony of still debating who ...
The Virginia Court of Appeals determined Tuesday that the Virginia NAACP’s yearslong challenge to Gov. Glenn Youngkin over ...
In public appearances across Boston this week, the Texas Democrats warned that the GOP-led effort to effectively erase five ...
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