The nation is marking the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark ...

Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in the 1960s calling for Black voting rights has been ...

Larry Hamm and former Assemblyman Craig Stanley called for passage of state bills to counter what they view as voter ...

The Good Trouble protests planned nationwide July 17 got their name from Rep. John Lewis and mark the fifth anniversary of ...

As first reported by POLITICO, the Education Department’s OCR dismissed more than 3,000 civil rights complaints between March 11 and June 27. The department confirmed the dismissals in court ...

SELMA, Ala. ( WSFA) - In celebration and commemoration of the anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, ...

FILE - The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, and Bishop Julian Smith, left, flank Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during a civil rights march in Memphis, Tenn., March 28, 1968. AP Photo/Jack Thornell, File ...

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights Dallas hub was one of seven closed nationwide after the Trump ...

Brett Hankison is the only officer who fired into Taylor's apartment to be charged and convicted of any crime.