This essay is part of a series by Lawyers Defending American Democracy where we demonstrate the link between the administration's sweeping executive actions and their roots in the authoritarian ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the now-infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on ...

WASHINGTON ‒ On the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil right lawyers and scholars warn those rights are in danger again.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Holly Corbett covers bias, workplace culture, and social movements. The 19th Amendment is part of a larger story about voting ...

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 to sign the bill ...

In a speech before he signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the landmark civil rights law, “Today we strike away the last major shackle…the Negro story and ...