WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the discriminatory practices against Black voters that were prevalent in many states ...

Civil rights activists fought for the Voting Rights Acts 60 years ago. Some worry the law's protections are now at risk.

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to an immediate wave of Black voter participation. 60 years later, that participation is ...

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

August 6 is the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Let us honor the sacrifices of the past by recommitting ourselves ...

The Supreme Court has been whittling away the VRA’s legal protections for years. Now it's poised to reconsider one of the act ...

The Voting Rights Act was signed 60 years ago today. It was the culmination of a hard-fought campaign by civil rights activists in the South. Now, a Georgia Democrat in Congress is leading the push to ...

"This Court has been extraordinarily unfriendly to the Voting Rights Act over the last couple of decades," a voting rights expert told Newsweek.

The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block.