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

Boomers growing up in an era of rising Black political power thought America had changed for good. What went wrong?

A crowd of thousands gathered in front of the city’s historic Alabama Capitol, the place where the Confederacy was formed in ...

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon ...

As Republicans destroy historic Black-majority House districts in the South, they are being compared with segregationists ...

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the civil rights movement. By Sonia A. Rao The Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of ...

Andrew Young, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. for voting rights, has strong words for the Supreme Court but tells CNN he remains undaunted in his hopes for America.

It took the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and its revisions decades later, to restore Black congressional representation in the South after Reconstruction.

In a 6-3 decision on Wednesday, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district, ruling it an unconstitutional gerrymander. The ruling has significant ...

Women from Fannie Lou Hamer to Kamala Harris warned America about threats to democracy. What happens when we finally listen?

The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect ...