(This story has been refiled to remove the video) By Donna Bryson SELMA, Alabama, May 18 (Reuters) - Betty Strong Boynton ...

The Supreme Court’s ruling to limit a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act this week adds a new bend to the winding ...

As the Voting Rights Act faces new threats, old tools of disenfranchisement are being repackaged for a new era.

In a 6-3 decision Wednesday, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district, ruling it an unconstitutional gerrymander. The ruling has significant implications ...

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon ...

From slavery to civil rights and music, we're laying out all the congressional districts targeted in redistricting battles ...

The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect ...

After recently weakening the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court avoided for now taking up a legal question that may ...

In 1965, Black Americans peacefully demonstrated for voting rights and were beaten by Alabama state troopers before returning ...

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), enraged by the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act and subsequent Southern states’ elimination of Black representation, joined the NAACP’s call to ...