The Supreme Court seemed likely to limit race-based electoral districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act after ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the monumental achievements of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency, was designed to not only eliminate voting barriers for African Americans, but also to ...

In October, one of the most consequential cases before the Supreme Court began. Six white justices, two Blacks and one Latina took the bench for arguments in Louisiana v. Callais. Addressing a core ...

This past summer my partner, Joan, and I walked up a small Adirondack peak, Goodman Mountain. A decade ago, the mountain was renamed for slain civil rights worker Andrew Goodman, who, together with ...

SELMA, Ala. — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands are gathering in the Alabama city this weekend, amid new concerns ...