Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic ...

The Supreme Court is revisiting the Voting Rights Act, potentially altering safeguards against discriminatory voting maps.

U.S. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has long telegraphed his desire to gut crucial portions of the Voting Rights Act, ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the legal blows it has taken, are central to the current political fight over voting access.

The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act was introduced by more than 200 House Democrats ahead of the anniversary of Bloody Sunday.

That is why the Voting Rights Act of 1965 continues to hold such an important role in securing and maintaining basic rights for our democracy.

This bill would update the Voting Rights Act of 1965, strengthening legal protections against discriminatory voting policies and practices.

Sunday marked 58 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Since then, local voting rights activist have said there have been multiple challenges to the right to vote.

Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the right to vote.

But my fundamental premise is that before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which I think is the most important piece of legislation ever passed in American history, this was functionally an apartheid ...

Advocates believe the fight for voting rights still has a long way to go, explaining that restrictive barriers for people of color still exist to this day. They just come in different forms.