Thousands of people rallied Wednesday in Jackson against efforts across the South to redraw political districts in ways that ...

Former president, 94, faces multiple US felony charges, including four counts of murder – key US politics stories from Wednesday 20 May ...

It was a busy day for the City Council on Wednesday, from massive settlements in lawsuits accusing police of misconduct to a ...

A Supreme Court ruling on Louisiana's congressional map could threaten Black voters' rights nationwide, requiring renewed ...

The Supreme Court's recent ruling threatens the power of racial-minority voters in Voting Rights Act cases about not just ...

The Department of Archives and History said a collection of 1960s Ku Klux Klan materials discovered at the Department of ...

Mississippi Democrats are holding a rally Wednesday to mobilize against redistricting plans that could reduce ...

The Supreme Court has made troubling decisions recently based more on ideology than a search for justice. That tracks with ...

The NAACP is calling on Black athletes and fans to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that are ...

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

In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais decision -- which grants states permission to erase ...