Just a week after the Supreme Court effectively destroyed the key remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act, Tennessee on ...

With the Supreme Court blessing racial gerrymandering, Tennessee Republicans rushed to eliminate the state’s only ...

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The federal government is carrying forward a white nationalist backlash to the mass uprisings that took place in 2020.

During the Reconstruction period of 1865–1877, federal law provided civil rights protection in the U.S. South for freedmen – the African Americans who had formerly been slaves. In the 1870s, White ...

By weakening the Voting Rights Act, the court’s majority has now restored power to the conservative white establishment.

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in ...

Kemp called for a redistricting session — Georgia’s third in five years — to try to draw more Republican-friendly districts ...

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — who eagerly describes herself as a prosecutor running against “felon” Donald Trump — likened law enforcement in America to lynching and Jim Crow ...

Gene Nichol: The Roberts Court has proven - pervasively, repeatedly, stunningly – its existential opposition to constitutional democracy ...

Jim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B. Hayes winning the electoral college but losing the popular vote in 1876. To get over the hump — there ...

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