From racial terror to literacy tests to modern-day voter suppression, efforts to silence Black political power have never stopped.

Last November, the new majority-Black 6th district voted in U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields. The district, in its previous, ...

Board of Education decision, declaring segregation unconstitutional — to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, white Southerners escalated their campaign of intimidation and violence to keep ...

D.C. is bracing for $1 billion in budget cuts that will impact all residents, but Black communities stand to be hit the ...

These 10 remarkable individuals are upholding John Lewis' tradition of making “good trouble” in the name of securing voting ...

Black leaders grapple with progress being undone by a series of court rulings, state laws, and Donald Trump's targeting of ...

They fed, protected and housed activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights.

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...

If conservatives want black people voting for Republicans to keep lasting, they are going to have to become a bit less sensitive.

But the Rev. C.T. Vivian's signal achievement may have been the Voting Rights Act, enacted almost 60 years ago, on Aug. 6, 1965. It addressed legal barriers preventing Black people from exercising ...