A new study offers lawmakers a roadmap for addressing key issues affecting Black communities, including voting rights, ...

Civil rights advocates argued the state failed to create new Black-majority districts in redrawn maps mandated by a judge in ...

From voting rights to health care to workplace equality, the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on a number of issues this summer that could have major implications for Black Americans. “In America, for ...

Cardinals began the papal conclave at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to select a new pope after the death of Pope Francis. What ...

The ruling says Alabama must use the court-ordered map that led to Rep. Shomari C. Figures being elected in 2024.

A new pope will be selected when a candidate gets a two-thirds-plus-one majority vote by the cardinal electors. White smoke ...

Challengers tell a federal appeals court that Georgia lawmakers haven’t done enough to end illegal harms to Black voters ...

Black smoke rose out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that the first vote of the conclave failed to reach the ...

A panel of three federal judges says the Alabama Legislature intentionally drew its congressional district map to dilute Black voting strength, which is unconstitutional and violates the Voting ...

More than 30 years ago, judicial voting districts were set up in East Baton Rouge Parish to help settle a lawsuit over the lack of Black judges on the bench in Louisiana. Now, a bill moving ...

Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally diluted the voting strength of Black residents when it drew congressional lines, and said the state must continue using a court-ordered map ...