Last November, the new majority-Black 6th district voted in U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields. The district, in its previous, ...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms ...

These 10 remarkable individuals are upholding John Lewis' tradition of making “good trouble” in the name of securing voting ...

Black leaders grapple with progress being undone by a series of court rulings, state laws, and Donald Trump's targeting of ...

declaring segregation unconstitutional — to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, white Southerners escalated their campaign of intimidation and violence to keep Black voters from the ...

An illustration of Black people in line to vote. Harper's Weekly Magazine. At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency in 1868, Americans were struggling to reconstruct a nation ...

They fed, protected and housed activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights.

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...

If conservatives want black people voting for Republicans to keep lasting, they are going to have to become a bit less sensitive.