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 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from tradition, then-President Lyndon Johnson went to Capitol Hill ...
The liberal press seems to be under the misapprehension that the Supreme Court endorsing colorblind election maps would amount to the evisceration of a key civil rights law. The Nine, hearing ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson moves to shake hands with Martin Luther King Jr. while others look on after Johnson signed the federal Voting Rights Act into law at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., ...
Fearing that recent Trump administration initiatives threaten gains made under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, civil rights activists gathered Wednesday in Newark on the 60th anniversary of the ...
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rehear a Louisiana case that could significantly weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965. At issue is whether creating majority-Black voting districts to ensure fair ...
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