The Supreme Court is reviewing a case centered on Section 2 of the voting rights act, which prohibits electoral practices ...

A law professor says the map “decimated” the Black community in northeastern North Carolina and would “overshadow its ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether Louisiana's intentional creation of a second majority-Black district violates ...

Activist Dr. Press Robinson reflects on the Supreme Court's reargument in a historic Louisiana redistricting case ...

Lafayette's African-American leaders are closely monitoring the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments in the Louisiana redistricting case. The case, Louisiana vs. Callais, has ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority appeared open to weakening the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a way ...

Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to erase a critical chapter of the past and to weaken the Voting Rights Act.

In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the conservative majority signaled it might prohibit using race as a factor in creating election districts. Resulting redistricting could let states cement ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Four years after overwhelming support from black voters nearly carried Bill Thompson to an improbable upset of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the lone African-American candidate for mayor is ...

Trump is in Atlanta Friday to launch a "Black Voices for Trump" coalition. ATLANTA, Ga. -- In his pursuit to broaden his base ahead of 2020, President Donald Trump on Friday launched a "Black Voices ...

"We have the generation that’s willing to say, ‘I’m prepared to fight.'" For voting rights activist Latosha Brown, voting in Georgia’s primary election last week laid bare the challenges African ...

This was the subject of a report released this morning from David Bositis, one of the nation’s foremost experts on black voter trends, at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in ...