Selma on Sunday marked the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers were ...

The 36 million who watched President Donald Trump's address to Congress also watched as Congressional Black Caucus member, ...

Black leaders grapple with progress being undone by a series of court rulings, state laws, and Donald Trump's targeting of ...

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

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

Her photo, beaten and bloody, became a galvanizing cry to guarantee voting rights for Black Americans. And the day of peaceful protest that devolved into state-sanctioned violence was coined ...

If there were any doubts about the human capacity to marginalize and suppress, Elaine Weiss’ “Spell Freedom” is an excellent reminder. From the lead-up to 1954 — when the U.S. Supreme Court handed ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

How challenges to the Voting Rights Act could reshape the political ... maps after a judge ruled current maps dilute the power of Black voters. And another ruling… News Wrap: Defense Secretary ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had done little to encourage the black community to register to vote. The Dallas County Voters League organised talks and protests, which led to the shooting dead of ...

As our colleagues have documented, the gap in voter participation between white and Black Americans has increased since the Supreme Court, through its 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, removed ...