WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Tuesday to restore and expand protections enshrined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, their latest long-shot attempt to revive the landmark law ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal appeals court that already has said private individuals and groups cannot sue under a key part of the federal Voting Rights Act went even further Wednesday toward ...

In June 2021, two-time school board candidate Virginia Elizondo filed a lawsuit alleging that Spring Branch ISD was violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Now, more than four years later, the ruling ...

Congressional Democrats have reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The legislation, named after the late civil rights leader and Georgia representative, would reinforce the Voting ...

Original jurisdictions: Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia. Also, subdivisions, mostly counties, in Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho ...

Joe Biden's 2020 campaign promised to improve racial justice and protect voting rights. But Biden's presidency failed to achieve his promise to update the Voting Rights Act. Biden promised to pass the ...

Since the 2020 Presidential election, there has been extensive discussion surrounding the security of American elections. This discussion took on a partisan divide, and even culminated in the belief ...

In a speech before he signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the landmark civil rights law, “Today we strike away the last major shackle…the Negro story and ...

NCBCP President & CEO Melanie L. Campbell releases this statement on the 60th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act: On Aug. 6, 2025 we pause to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the historic Voting ...

On Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most consequential victories in American history. Nearly a century after the 15th Amendment promised Black ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal appeals court that already has said private individuals and groups cannot sue under a key part of the federal Voting Rights Act went even further Wednesday toward ...

FILE - People stand in line during the last day of early voting, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, file) WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Tuesday ...