It took the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and its revisions decades later, to restore Black congressional representation in the South after Reconstruction.

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - During Reconstruction, the turbulent period after the American Civil War focused on reintegrating Southern states into the Union, slavery had been abolished and African Americans ...

Frederick Douglass did not know the day he was born.Like many enslaved people, he was denied even the dignity of ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — At 16, Edward Blackmon Jr. was arrested during a protest for voting rights in his Mississippi hometown. He was loaded with schoolmates into a truck once used to haul chickens and ...

The decision gutting the Voting Rights Act has commenced the largest rollback of Black representation in the South since the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A Supreme Court ruling has gutted a key tenet of the Voting Rights Act, allowing states to draw districts without ...

With the Supreme Court blessing racial gerrymandering, Tennessee Republicans rushed to eliminate the state’s only majority-Black congressional district. The ink had barely dried on the Supreme Court’s ...

Back in 2013, the Supreme Court tossed out a key provision of the Voting Rights Act regarding federal oversight of elections. It appears poised to abolish another pillar of the law. The dismantling of ...

There is a dangerous myth circulating in some corners of public discourse: that the Black Power struggle ended decades ago. That it peaked in the 1960s and early 1970s with fiery rhetoric, militant ...