The activism of Black women often predated that of famous white suffragists—and still informs debates over what history is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across the South, Black voting-rights activists were murdered by white mobs and officials. Their killers walked free. Their ...

On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile parked in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi ...

The voting power of Black and minority communities faces fresh threats as the U.S. Supreme Court and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are poised to reshape electoral maps, moves that critics warn could ...

In 1965, there were only six Black lawmakers in the U.S. House and none in the Senate. There are now 60 Black voting members in the House (plus two nonvoting delegates) and five in the Senate. But ...

The United States could be headed toward the largest-ever decline in representation by Black members of Congress, depending on how the Supreme Court rules in a closely watched redistricting case about ...

Black activists who registered voters in the Jim Crow South faced threats, violence, and murder. Despite evidence and witnesses, perpetrators of these political killings were rarely held accountable ...