The former assistant attorney general for civil rights under President Joe Biden, Kristen Clarke, is joining the National ...

Former assistant attorney general for civil rights, Kristen Clarke, will serve as general counsel for the NAACP.

The federal observer program sends neutral observers to monitor election sites to ensure voters don't experience ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) warned that President Donald Trump's policies could undo decades of progress on civil, voting, ...

Black victims are usually forgotten footnotes of history.

The Supreme Court seemed likely to limit race-based electoral districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act after ...

Alabama marked the 61st anniversary of a key event in the Civil Rights Movement, when state troopers attacked voting rights marchers in Selma.

In big wins for civil liberties to protect abortion access and voting rights, and defy fearmongering, voters built the momentum needed to carry the fight forward to future elections. In big wins for ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act ...

FILE - State troopers hit protesters with billy clubs to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., on Sunday, March 7, 1965. (AP Photo/File) FILE - State troopers hit protesters with billy ...

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