Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the ...

On Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most consequential victories in ...

In a speech before he signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the landmark civil ...

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...

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

Residents in a neighborhood rich with civil rights history want solutions now after 11 people were injured and a man was killed.

One man was killed and 16 others were injured during one July weekend on Edgewood Avenue, prompting City Councilmember Liliana Bakhtiari to create a safety task force.

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations on Thursday declared a “state of emergency” for antidiscrimination policies, personal freedoms and Black economic ...

A whites-only community in Arkansas ignites national outrage, echoing segregationist history as civil rights advocates demand urgent legal action.

Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Tuesday to restore and expand protections enshrined in the Voting Rights act of 1965, ...

Branded as a radical early on, Alfredo Gutierrez was a master at navigating the needs of diverse communities and forging high ...