Voting Rights

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden urged the NAACP on Wednesday to spread the word about what he called “a hailstorm” of measures…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — At a time when election officials are struggling to convince more Americans to vote, advocates for the disabled say thousands of…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Race is roiling the Republican Senate runoff in Mississippi, a state with a long history of racially divided politics where the…

AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) –With civil rights legends Andrew Young, John Lewis and Julian Bond and Jesse Jackson looking on, President Barack Obama on April 10…

PoliticsNation host and National Action Network founder, Rev. Al Sharpton, released the following statement after meeting with President Barack Obama and Attorney General...

For many civil rights veterans, 2013 might as well be 1963. On June 25, the Supreme Court ruled that Section 4 of the...

If I walked the streets of New York City (or anywhere, really) and asked random people if they knew what happened to the Voting Rights Act last week, I wonder how many would have an answer? If I told them that the Supreme Court just struck down a major section of the Act, would they know what I was talking about? If I said voter equality suffered ...

By MARC MORIAL"No nation can long continue to flourish or to find its way to a better society while it allows any one of...

BY BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUSOur voting rights are under attack. In legislatures across the county, misguided state politicians have proposed, and in too many cases...

NEW YORK, NY— Thousands took to the streets of midtown Manhattan on Saturday, December 10th — United Nations Human Rights Day — to Stand...