WASHINGTON (CN) — The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement faces extinction at the Supreme Court next week as the justices consider whether a safeguard against racial discrimination is ...

Over 155 years ago on Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment was ratified, giving Black men the right to vote.

An opinion Wednesday by Chief Judge Thomas Kleeh (N.D. W. Va.) in Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism, Inc. v. Pickens deals with a rule of the West Virginia state bar, which is organized as a ...

The women’s movement grows out of abolition, and yet with the 15th Amendment, which is a huge breakthrough for civil rights — establishing that voting will not be denied on the basis of race — you ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case that could fundamentally change the role that race plays in elections across the country — and Louisiana is at the center of it. Callais v. Louisiana is, ...

Since the Voting Rights Act was signed into law in 1965, African Americans have been allowed to vote in elections for the past 60 years. After an oral argument in the Supreme Court that’s disputing a ...