The FBI put out this poster looking for leads after the disappearance of Andrew Goodman, James Earle Chaney and Matthew Henry Schwerner in June 1964. The three men were helping to register Black ...

Tennessee, with the most convoluted voting rights restoration process and, by extension, the highest rate of Black disenfranchisement of any state in the nation, has been the poster child for the ...

Despite its foundational importance, the journey of Black American voting rights has been fraught with enduring obstacles, characterized by a disheartening persistence of deceptive tactics.

The curtailment of Black voting rights inflated the white supremacists’ power in Washington. Political scientist Richard Valelly estimates that it gave white Southerners an extra 25 seats in the ...

most especially Black Americans. The timeline below lays out some important dates in this history, as well as dates that mark significant advancements in voting rights. The years between 1863 and ...

Those lawsuits include challenges to state voting laws or Congressional maps that several courts have argued violate the constitutional rights of Black voters. In a statement obtained by theGrio ...

In honor of Election Day, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has highlighted 10 voting rights posters directed at citizens like Hamer—she later became a civil rights firebrand—who ...

The 2024 presidential election represents a defining moment for Black Americans’ political ... the election’s outcome could significantly impact voting rights, economic opportunities, and ...

In the 1960s, Congress passed additional legal measures to protect the voting rights of Black Americans. This included the 24th Amendment, which outlawed the use of poll taxes, and the 1965 Voting ...

Two recent Supreme Court rulings on congressional redistricting will have starkly different consequences for Black ... voting power – is illegal, because it violates the Voting Rights Act ...

The Voting Rights Act has been remarkably effective in countering the myriad laws and practices the Southern states adopted to keep Black people from voting since the end of Reconstruction.

On Feb. 10, a federal court ruled that Louisiana’s House and Senate voting district maps violated Section Two of the Voting Rights Act and diluted the voting power of Black residents in the state.