The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the discriminatory practices against Black voters that were prevalent in many states.

Historically, individual plaintiffs have sued under the VRA to overturn discriminatory local voting laws. But an appeals ...

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...

Questions about the Voting Rights Act’s constitutionality have long been hanging in the air at the Supreme Court. But it was ...

ANXIOUS ANNIVERSARY — The Voting Rights Act was signed into law 60 years ago this week. What the law will look like when it reaches its 61st anniversary next year is a big question.

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him, signed the Voting ...

U.S. Reps. Pat Ryan and Josh Riley, along with state Congressional Democratic delegates, are urging New York lawmakers to ...

Voting rights advocates warned that ‘hasty’ mid-census redistricting in Indiana would negatively impact minority voters, ...

Things to know about the Voting Rights Act and the cases that could unravel it The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break ...