From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

Civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre during college. This revelation inspired ...

For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the civil-rights-era vision that the government has an obligation to remedy and ...

The Supreme Court significantly narrowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in a 6-3 ruling Wednesday, further eroding the impact of the landmark civil rights-era law. For decades, Section 2 — a ...

The US was not a true democracy before the Voting Rights Act. Wednesday’s decision has essentially destroyed the law Is America a democracy? The term implies an equality of rights and dignity among ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday hollowed out a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere, striking down a majority Black ...

Both parties are now scrambling to adjust to a new voting rights landscape. By Katie Glueck The big political news today is that the Supreme Court has further weakened the Voting Rights Act. Tonight, ...

Katherine Chui, a graphics reporter, analyzed two centuries of census and congressional data. Emily Cochrane is based in Nashville and covers the American South. April 30, 2026 The central tenet of ...

A long-held goal of the conservative legal movement came to fruition on Wednesday: The gutting of the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, a case challenging ...

Ordinary colonists, the farmers, churchgoers, local leaders, pushed back against injustice by the British Crown.

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on April 29 threw out a congressional map in Louisiana that had been drawn to protect the voting power of Black residents, a decision that limits a landmark civil rights ...

The Supreme Court’s decision further eviscerating the Voting Rights Act will enable a systematic disenfranchisement of minority voters that echoes the darkest moments in America’s racial history. With ...