WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday night failed to change the filibuster rule to allow voting rights legislation to pass with a simple majority. The rule change would have required 51 votes to pass ...
Lawyers representing a group of Louisiana voters challenging the creation of a second majority-Black congressional district ...
While the Voting Rights Act was undoubtedly a singular achievement, it represented the culmination of a long struggle.
Sixty years ago today, a landmark piece of voting rights legislation was signed into law — a policy that has aimed to course-correct America’s wobbled experiment of representative democracy. The ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As we commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Junior's birthday Monday, there is a renewed push to pass voting rights protections in the U.S. Senate. More than five decades after ...
As the Voting Rights Act turns 60, the fragility of our rights and democracy is clear, but if ever there was a time to do both defense and offense, that time is now. An untrue hierarchy of human value ...
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In photos: Voting Rights Act of 1965 turns 60
Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a law aimed at ending discrimination and violence against Black Americans, Latinos and ...
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