From slavery to civil rights and music, we're laying out all the congressional districts targeted in redistricting battles with deep ties to Black history.

The Voting Rights Act was not racial favoritism. It was a protection created in response to a long and documented history of racial violence and exclusion. However, the United States Supreme Court in ...

For many Black Americans, the right to vote is sacred in a democracy, and when those entrusted to protect it undermine it, the betrayal cuts deeply.

Divided along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2006, issued a ruling that severely weakens a provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision, known as Section ...

For decades, Black Floridians organized block by block to claim a right long denied to them — the vote. Civil rights leaders like Harry T. Moore and Mary McLeod Bethune built statewide networks to ...

SELMA, Alabama May 18 (Reuters) Betty Strong Boynton marched into history as a teenager in the 1960s, when she was among the hundreds of peaceful protesters attacked by club-wielding Alabama state ...

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Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean ...