Sixty years ago this week, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led civil rights demonstrators on their third attempt to march from ...

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday over the fate of Louisiana’s second Black-majority congressional district.

There are a handful of photographs of Jesse Jackson that capture not only his unique place in history but that also ...

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

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

Civil rights leaders and elected officials commemorated on Friday the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day voting and civil rights activists were violently beaten and injured by law ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been remarkably successful, closing massive disparities in registration rates across racial groups and blocking redistricting plans designed to limit the power of ...

The Warren County Board of Supervisors is voting on a proposal that could defund the historic Samuels Library in Front Royal and threaten its ability to stay open. The library was the 2024 ...

This is the second video in the “State Voting Rights Acts: Explained” video series created by the Center for American Progress and the Legal Defense Fund. This is the second video in the ...

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Nominations are open March 1 – May 1. You can vote daily, but you need to vote in at least six categories for your ballot to be valid! By entering this ballot, you agree to opt-in to Orlando ...