Questions about the Voting Rights Act’s constitutionality have long been hanging in the air at the Supreme Court. But it was only earlier this month, in an order expanding a Louisiana redistricting ...

This month we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the single most influential pieces of ...

WASHINGTON ‒ On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil right lawyers and scholars warn those rights are in danger again.

While the Voting Rights Act of 1965 added critical protections for voting rights, 50 years later, in 2013, those protections were all but stripped away when the Supreme Court overturned vital ...

Voting rights for women, immigrants, Blacks, Native Americans and soldiers went through many changes beginning in the late 1800s, up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Dr. Rachel ...

(This was revoked in 1807.)Voting rights remained this way until the post-Civil War era when slavery was abolished—and even then, nearly 100 years later, it wasn’t much more than a formality.

(This was revoked in 1807.)Voting rights remained this way until the post-Civil War era when slavery was abolished-and even then, nearly 100 years later, it wasn’t much more than a formality.

Voting rights remained this way until the post-Civil War era when slavery was abolished—and even then, nearly 100 years later, it wasn't much more than a formality.

That’s the civil rights leader Andrew Young in the new CNN Original Series “LBJ: Triumph and Tragedy,” describing the voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, that became a ...

The Voting Rights Act permitted federal supervision of voter registration wherever fewer than half of eligible voters were registered, which included virtually the entire South.

(This was revoked in 1807.)Voting rights remained this way until the post-Civil War era when slavery was abolished-and even then, nearly 100 years later, it wasn’t much more than a formality.