U.S. President Donald Trump without any formal announcement has decided to nominate five new judges to serve on federal trial ...

Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston is standing firm for justice in the face of racist gerrymandering and the collapse of democracy in Texas, as testified by Rev. Angela Ravin-Anderson before the ...

Is the US Supreme Court about to disenfranchise black Americans and other racial minority voters? You would think so, given ...

For the past week, the Texas House has been at a standstill after Democrats secretly left the state to block a vote on a ...

At dinner last weekend a friend asked me to reflect on this birthday and almost 50 years in Northampton. Which I’ve done. In ...

The gerrymandering game of brinksmanship must end before it begins. Ensuring more voters’ votes don’t matter is poor governance and just plain undemocratic, whether its Democratic ...

Aug. 6 marked the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights legislation that made voting possible ...

As the Voting Rights Act turns 60, it is clear that the right to vote is under attack and that we must defend and expand voting rights for all Americans.

If you believe mainstream media and political pundits, you'd think the Democratic Party was responsible for our voting rights ...

By Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony, Guest Columnist Sixty years ago, March 15, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, during a Joint Session of Congress said, “At times history and fate meet at a single time ...

Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, Black Americans are facing diluted advances and fighting some of the battles already won.

The justices, having effectively blessed partisan gerrymandering, may be poised to eliminate the remaining pillar of the ...