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CBS News Radio flashback: LBJ calls for equal voting rights after Selma march in 1965

Major Garrett introduces CBS News Radio coverage of President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1965 speech to Congress, calling for equal voting rights for Black Americans.

US: Allow Those With Felony Convictions to Vote

Click to expand Image Spellman Bernard Smith, Jr., 78, center, stands in line with other...

Supreme Court further dilutes Voting Rights Act

The U.S. Supreme issued a 6-3 ruling April 29 severely limiting a key element of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that protects minorities from voting discrimination. In a decision sp...

Voting Rights Act Crippled By Supreme Court, Anger Erupts

On Wednesday (April 29), the Supreme Court returned a 6-3 decision in Louisiana vs. Callais, a case that challenged the drawing up of a second majority-Black voting district in the...

Five Books to Understand the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Here's what you need to know.

Voting Rights Act ruling could change representation on city councils, school boards across Texas

The 1965 federal law helped Latino and Black voters gain representation in city and school boards across Texas but now that could change.

Here’s What To Know About The Voting Rights Act And Its Impact On Black Voters

Historic decision challenges protections for Black voters and delays Louisiana elections

The Ballot Remains The Battlefield: The Demise Of The Voting Rights Act

Written by Dr. Russ Wigginton The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais effectively renders Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) a “dead letter” by requiring proof o...

Voting rights and the ancestral voices of the African diaspora

Let me tell you what just happened: The U.S. Supreme Court effectively dismantled the Voting Rights Act. The very legislation for which John Lewis bled on that bridge, for which Fa...

US Supreme Court guts key provision of Voting Rights Act

The U.S. Supreme Court restricted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, impacting minority voting power in Louisiana's congressional redistricting ahead of elections. The post US Sup...

Steve Bannon Claims Voting Rights Act Of 1965 Was Racist Against Southern Whites

After the Kangaroo Supreme Court stripped away key sections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, MAGA influencer and resident scumbag Steve Bannon said the South was the people who ha...

Voting Rights Act Crippled By Supreme Court, Anger Erupts

On Wednesday (April 29), the Supreme Court returned a 6-3 decision in Louisiana vs. Callais, a case that challenged the drawing up of a second majority-Black voting district in the...

Southern Coalition for Social Justice’s Chris Shenton on the gutting of the Voting Rights Act

  One of the greatest achievements of the American Civil Rights movement was the enactment more than 60 years ago of a law known as the Voting Rights Act. Though it had several pro...

“We Could See the Largest Drop in Black Representation Since the End of Reconstruction.”

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to the country’s most important civil rights legislation, the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the law that defeated Jim Crow. For 100 y...

Supreme Court ruling: The latest in history of diminishing minority voting rights

Share articlePrint articleDivided along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2006, issued a ruling that severely weakens a provision of the landmark Voting Rights...

Supreme Court deals major blow to Voting Rights Act with new ruling

In a 6-3 ruling, the court’s conservative majority found that Louisiana district represented by Democrat Cleo Fields relied too heavily on race.

Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act in "Devastating Blow" to Democracy & Civil Rights: Maya Wiley

The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining major provision of the landmark 1965 law that was a crowning achievement of the...

Why Conservatives Are Trying to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Voting Rights Act is widely considered one of the most effective laws in prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. One of its key provisions has long allowed states to take...

What to know about the Voting Rights Act after historic Supreme Court decision

The NAACP called the high court’s ruling a “devastating blow” to the landmark civil rights legislation. 

Voting Rights Act ruling could change representation on city councils, school boards across Texas

The 1965 federal law helped Latino and Black voters gain representation in city and school boards across Texas but now that could change.

Supreme Court Deals a Death Blow to the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court’s six-to-three Republican-appointed majority issued a staggering ruling on Wednesday essentially killing the remaining protections of the Voting Rights Act, deali...

What to know about the Voting Rights Act after historic Supreme Court decision 

“The Supreme Court has not just weakened a law, it has humiliated and dismantled the life’s work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and every man and woman who marched, ble...

How the Voting Rights Act reshaped Texas’ electoral maps by empowering voters, candidates of color

The Supreme Court weakened Section 2, the linchpin of the 1965 civil rights legislation that prohibits diluting the electoral power of voters of color. But the statute’s fingerprin...