Like democracy, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 didn’t come with a lifetime warranty. The survival of both depends on our vigilance in protecting the vote, democracy’s most important lifeline.

The Voting Rights Act is quite likely dead given previous Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice John Roberts, opines ...

The court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...

In doing so, the court would extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality. If ...

While the Voting Rights Act may be heading to its demise as a functional piece of legislation, it can still stand as a symbol ...

Some might argue that the old democratic socialists were comfortable with an Israel governed by the Labor Party – then a proud member of the Socialist International – during an era when the kibbut ...

Historically, it has been difficult to build and sustain diverse activist coalitions—but they are uniquely impactful.

Museums across the U.S. are displaying artifacts that represent and reflect landmark events of the Civil Rights era.

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - August 6th, 1965 symbolizes a significant turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. That was the ...

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

This is a great piece from Jamelle Bouie on the likely death of the Voting Rights Act and, zooming out, the end of an era in Ameri ...