Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin ...

The nation is marking the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

When 1965 began, federal voting rights legislation was far from the minds of most in Washington. After all, Congress had just ...

As the Voting Rights Act turns 60, its legacy is under siege—from courts, lawmakers, and a government retreating from ...

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil rights lawyers and scholars warn those rights are in danger again.

DNC chair Ken Martin joins 'America's Newsroom' to discuss Texas' redistricting effort as Gov. Abbott feuds with Democrats ...

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in the 1960s calling for Black voting rights has been ...

Sixty years ago today – August 6, 1965 – President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965, giving a ...

Texas's redistricting attempts are meant to amend previous racial gerrymandering and ensure fair representation to the ...

Both Texas Republicans and Democrats are ratcheting up their rhetoric over proposed U.S. House maps that could give the GOP ...