The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from tradition, then-President Lyndon Johnson went to Capitol Hill to sign the bill ...

(WDBJ) - On this day, 80 years ago, a United States B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy”, on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. The strike killed about 140,000 people with ...

This month we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the single most influential pieces of legislation in American history. The policy that finally, almost 200 years ...

While the 1965 law was adopted in response to discriminatory practices in southern states, it has affected states and localities nationwide. By Nick Corasaniti The Voting Rights Act grew out of civil ...

Last week marked the 60 th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. President Lyndon Baines Johnson is normally not listed among the best presidents, largely because he escalated the Vietnam War ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices have indicated that they are set to strike down a portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The conservatives have expressed hostility to the portion of the ...

The justices have shown a willingness to chip away at the landmark civil rights legislation. A Louisiana case could unravel much of its remaining power. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington In ...

This month we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the single most influential pieces of legislation in American history. The policy that finally brought us to the ...