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 led to sweeping change across the American South as discriminatory voting practices were dismantled and ...

In public appearances across Boston this week, the Texas Democrats warned that the GOP-led effort to effectively erase five ...

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.

In 2024 the Turtle Mountain Band and the Spirit Lake Tribe formed a joint district for the first time. The future of the ...

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

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

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

It was August 6th, 1965, when president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, making it illegal to discriminate at ...