The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

As voting rights lose ground, The 19th spoke with four of the advocates working to preserve the path to the ballot for the ...

Governor Maura Healey hosted 10 Democratic Texas state legislators who left Texas in order to halt Republican efforts to vote ...

Abbott called a special session of the legislature to adopt a new map unveiled last Wednesday, which redraws congressional ...

Civil rights activists fought for the Voting Rights Acts 60 years ago. Some worry the law's protections are now at risk.

The nation is marking the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark ...

DNC chair Ken Martin joins 'America's Newsroom' to discuss Texas' redistricting effort as Gov. Abbott feuds with Democrats ...

We speak with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich about his new memoir, Coming Up Short, which tells his life story alongside ...

When 1965 began, federal voting rights legislation was far from the minds of most in Washington. After all, Congress had just ...

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil rights lawyers and scholars warn those rights are in danger again.

Texas's redistricting attempts are meant to amend previous racial gerrymandering and ensure fair representation to the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. The landmark legislation outlawed literacy tests and gave the federal government power to protect ...