Just a week after the Supreme Court effectively destroyed the key remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act, Tennessee on ...

With the Supreme Court blessing racial gerrymandering, Tennessee Republicans rushed to eliminate the state’s only ...

The federal government is carrying forward a white nationalist backlash to the mass uprisings that took place in 2020.

By weakening the Voting Rights Act, the court’s majority has now restored power to the conservative white establishment.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision effectively endorsing gerrymanders that disenfranchise Black voters, an outbreak ...

We've all seen those infamous images from the early-20th century South that serve as a harrowing reminder of the Jim Crow era ...

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During the Reconstruction period of 1865–1877, federal law provided civil rights protection in the U.S. South for freedmen – the African Americans who had formerly been slaves. In the 1870s, White ...

The Roberts Court has proven — pervasively, repeatedly, stunningly – its existential opposition to constitutional democracy ...

Last week, in a six-to-three ruling along ideological lines, the Supreme Court dealt a major blow to the Voting Rights Act of ...

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in ...