Women’s Equality Day happens on August 26th to honor the passage of the 19th amendment that gave women voting rights. It didn’t happen overnight, but took decades of activism.

Fields was the central character in the Supreme Court decision that hollowed out the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The court ...

As voting rights become diminished, Santa Clara County officials and advocates are pushing back. The Board of Supervisors is ...

The California Legislature has advanced Senate Bills 1164 and 1360, collectively known as the California Voting Rights Act of ...

As voting rights become diminished, Santa Clara County officials and advocates are pushing back. The Board of Supervisors is ...

Just over two months from midterm elections and four months removed from a U.S. Supreme Court decision that gutted Voting ...

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is hosting "Witness to the Journey," a photo exhibition on the 1965 march ...

More than six decades after thousands of people marched from Selma to Montgomery demanding voting rights, one Selma family is fighting to make sure a piece of that history does not disappear.

On August 29, 1957, Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act—the first federal civil rights law since Reconstruction. It was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘They wanted to disrupt black voting power’: The fight against redistricting and the GOP’s effort to silence a ballot demographic ...

As part of the children’s choir at the historic Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma, Ala., Terri Sewell would watch as John ...