If there were any doubts about the human capacity to marginalize and suppress, Elaine Weiss’ “Spell Freedom” is an excellent reminder. From the lead-up to 1954 — when the U.S. Supreme Court handed ...

Some will say that Democrats will lose white voters if they overtly center the concerns of Black voters. But such thinking ...

The modern Democratic Party pushed for the civil rights laws in the 1960s that secured Black people the right to vote and prohibited discrimination in public places, hiring and housing.

An illustration of Black people in line to vote. Harper's Weekly Magazine. At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency in 1868, Americans were struggling to reconstruct a nation ...

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

29. “A place that once enslaved Black people now educates them to become the top engineers, nurses, attorneys, architects, teachers in the country,” she said. Students claim in the lawsuit Waller ...

Montgomery march galvanized this nation to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But 60 years later, voter suppression endures.

The United States District Court for the District of Maryland has issued a ruling in a lawsuit against Wicomico County ...

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 ...

Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues and what’s at stake for ...