Born into enslavement in Tennessee, Gillespie resettled in Milwaukee by the mid-1850s and challenged local officials who ...

Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...

Under the Trump administration, the Justice Department has stepped away from some voting rights lawsuits, leaving behind a ...

The case tests the balancing act states must strike in protecting the voting power of a racial minority while not ...

Viola Liuzzo, a civil rights activist from Detroit, was murdered by the KKK in Alabama while marching for voting rights.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the right to vote. On March 7, 1965, 600 civil ...

Hundreds of voting rights advocates, civil rights organizations and legislators rallied Wednesday at the Florida Capitol ...

President Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote isn’t that far from Jim Crow-era literacy tests, says Bea Hines ...

To that end, the Black Book details a range of civil rights information, including racial profiling, police brutality and ...

Tag, you’re it,” the crowd at the Florida Capitol complex shouted to call on the next generation of leaders to advance voting ...

In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, ...