The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the civil rights movement. By Sonia A. Rao The Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 changed history, but today those hard-won protections face new, dangerous challenges.

This is an opinion column. It would be two more months before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was still making its way through a clogged and conflicted but ...

I felt like I was being mistreated. Facing barriers at the ballot box, Portia Haskins fought back in court. Her fight started one year after the Constitution outlawed poll taxes in federal elections ...

Within the Black community, a convoluted narrative about when Blacks became U.S. citizens is emerging as Black leaders and ...