Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With time running out and no action scheduled yet, advocates planned to escalate their campaign to convince lawmakers to pass the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Democratic New Jersey lawmakers advanced a voting rights bill in the state Senate on Thursday, marking the first hearing on the ...

The House of Representatives voted 220-203, with all Democrats in support and all Republicans opposed, Thursday morning to pass a new voting rights bill called the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act ...

For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the civil-rights-era vision that the government has an obligation to remedy and ...

The Supreme Court has left in place a ruling that strikes down a key tool for enforcing Voting Rights Act protections for voters with a disability or an inability to read or write in seven states.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The impacts of the Callais decision on Black workers are far-reaching. “After Callais, a ...

The ruling could have sweeping consequences for minority representation in government and the balance of power in Congress.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday hollowed out a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere, striking down a majority Black ...

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With time running out and no action scheduled yet, advocates planned to escalate their campaign to convince lawmakers to pass the Rhode Island "Voting Rights Act" introduced by Senate President ...