If the Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, it could usher in ...

If upheld by the Supreme Court, as seems likely, the challenge to Section 2 would turn the Voting Rights Act on its head.

James Clyburn is one of the most influential Democrats in Congress. His new book “The First Eight" is about the Black South ...

The vote amounts a significant gesture that shows the uneasiness felt by some Republicans, including some of Trump’s MAGA ...

The Congressional Black Caucus is blasting President Donald Trump over U.S. actions against Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, ...

Liban Mohamed joined a crowded field of candidates vying for a Democratic-leaning district in Utah's new congressional maps.

While Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were in custody in New York Monday on federal drug charges, the congressman representing St. Louis was meeting with House colleagues ...

Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md) announces retirement after six decades in politics. He was a strong advocate for legislation and ...

"For many Black Catholics, the issue is not whether the Church moved to combat racial harm," writes Efran Menny. "But rather ...

Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ stories of surviving slavery, including a grandfather who ...

Other predominantly Black communities that have suffered from environmental injustice and Venezuelan crude oil include ...