The Voting Rights Act cleared the chamber by a 77-17 vote on May 26, 1965. The bill faced similar scrutiny in the House of Representatives, where some felt it did not go far enough against ...

Attorney General Dana Nessel joined 18 others urging the Eighth Circuit to uphold the VRA provision defending the right to sue over racial discrimination in voting.

A young janitor’s role in thwarting an attempted bombing in 1958 is the latest addition to an Alabama oral history project ...

Late last month, the Trump administration dismissed all cases in which the U.S. Department of Justice sought to enforce the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 and removed all the senior attorneys ...

Residents and experts say the response is reminiscent of a longstanding dynamic in the state and around the country.

The Justice Department’s unit tasked with enforcing federal voting laws is down from roughly 30 attorneys to about a half-dozen,, as most of its career staff has departed in the face of ...

Los Angeles residents and experts say that the National Guard's presence in Los Angeles in response to immigration protests is reminiscent of a longstanding dynamic in the state and around the country ...

Andrew Goodman, along with James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were murdered in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964 ...

Laws restricting non-citizens from voting already exist, posing the question of what  the goal of the SAVE Act truly is?

Some previous deployments restored peace after local crackdowns or vigilante violence, but sometimes troops intensified ...

The Supreme Court turned away Virginia’s appeal on Monday that sought to quash a challenge to the state’s lifetime voting ban ...

On Wednesday, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined 18 other attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that urges the court to uphold a ...