North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer relented Thursday rather than risk a government shutdown, announcing he’s ready to ...

OPINION- A snippy article in The New York Times this past weekend — sorry, an unusually snippy article in The New York Times this past weekend — suggested that Trump is using his ...

If lawmakers truly engaged with all of their constituents, they would understand that political discussions already take place in prison.

In 1966, Simone wrote and performed “Four Women,” a musical portrait of different stereotyped Black women who were exploited ...

How the brutal treatment of Black citizens in Selma, Alabama in 1965 led to the creation of the Voting Rights Act, a pivotal ...