Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a law aimed at ending discrimination and violence against Black Americans, Latinos and ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson moves to shake hands with Martin Luther King Jr. while others look on after Johnson signed the federal Voting Rights Act into law at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., ...

This August marked the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – the landmark United States federal law that banned racial discrimination in voting. But six decades later, many of its ...

The Voting Rights Act was passed to stop racial discrimination in voting. The case, Louisiana v. Callais, questions if states can comply with the Voting Rights Act without violating constitutional ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) is a landmark law that created legal procedures to stop race-based discrimination in voting and move the country closer to an inclusive and representative democracy ...

WASHINGTON – When Congress passed landmark civil rights legislation in 1965 to stop racial discrimination in voting, only six members of the U.S. House were Black. Today, there are 10 times as many ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority signaled deep skepticism Wednesday over the creation of a second majority Black district in Louisiana and appeared open to at least weakening the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case that could fundamentally change the role that race plays in elections across the country — and Louisiana is at the center of it. Callais v. Louisiana is, ...