While the 1965 law was adopted in response to discriminatory practices in southern states, it has affected states and localities nationwide. By Nick Corasaniti The Voting Rights Act grew out of civil ...

This August marked the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – the landmark United States federal law that banned racial discrimination in voting. But six decades later, many of its ...

The fate of the Voting Rights Act, at issue in Louisiana v. Callais, might depend on a devastating decision from six years ago. In 2019, in Rucho v. Common Cause, the Supreme Court refused to ...

This month we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the single most influential pieces of legislation in American history. The policy that finally, almost 200 years ...

The US Supreme Court is reportedly set to gut core provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a landmark law that prohibited racial discrimination in the voting process. Urging the court to act is the ...

Since the Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965, African Americans have been allowed to vote in elections for the past 60 years. After an oral argument in the Supreme Court that’s disputing a ...