This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In 1982, when the Voting Rights Act was up for reauthorization, the Reagan Justice Department had a goal: ...

In our workplaces, in our communities and in our government, the right to vote is how working people make our voices heard. The late Rep. John Lewis (Georgia) proclaimed, “Your ...

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices and became one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement, some political observers assert that ...

Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock (Ga.) and Dick Durbin (Ill.) are set to reintroduce the Senate version of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025, which would replace the 1965 Voting ...

Republicans could gain nearly 200 state legislative seats across the South if the U.S. Supreme Court guts a key provision of ...

The Court of Appeals kept in tact a 2022 law that strengthened voting rights of New Yorkers, tailored to prohibit vote dilution of historically marginalized and disenfranchised communities. The Empire ...

The Supreme Court is set to hear Louisiana v. Callais, a case questioning if electoral districts can be drawn based on race. Creating racially concentrated districts is said to increase political ...

Richard Topper has been a trial attorney in Columbus for 45 years and is actively involved in voting rights efforts. Ohio Republicans have sent an unnecessary bill to Gov. Mike DeWine that would have ...

Sister Mary Antona Ebo, a Franciscan Sister of Mary, is pictured in the front row at the center with her superior, Sister Eugene Marie Smith, as they march in Selma, Ala., March 10, 1965, to support ...