AP | Carrie Meek, the grandchild of a slave and a sharecropper’s daughter who became one of the first Black Floridians elected to Congress since Reconstruction,...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has asked a federal judge to halt the implementation of a photo identification requirement for North...
By Jon Queally On the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, proponents of the landmark legislation are saying the law not only deserves to be...
African American voters The Obama administration plans to join lawsuits in Ohio and Wisconsin over Republican-backed changes to state voting laws that plaintiffs say violate the...
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama this week celebrates the civil rights advances of 50 years ago which laid the groundwork...
African American voters. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – A Wisconsin state law requiring voters to present photo identification went on trial in federal court on Monday, with critics...
African American voters The U.S. Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort...
Image merge of U.S. President Barack Obama and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./Courtesy of BET U.S. President Barack Obama will lead his nation in...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. PHOTO/Mary F. Calvert/AP Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has criticised North Carolina’s new restrictive voting law in...
U.S. Rep James Clyburn. PHOTO/File Congressman James Clyburn (Democrat – South Carolina), has been tasked by House Democrats in the U.S. Congress to lead efforts to...
The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) released the following statements in response to this week’s U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate Section...
American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court says a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced until Congress comes up...
American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images U.S. President Barack Obama argued Friday for keeping a key provision of federal voting rights law in place, saying it will...
