Two years after the Supreme Court ruled to abolish affirmative action in higher education admissions, Black enrollment at selective universities is down, Asian American enrollment is up and the ...
The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing a case that could dramatically reshape how the Voting Rights Act protects minority voters across the country. “This is absolutely war,” said Latosha Brown, ...
WASHINGTON — A neutering by the Supreme Court of the Voting Rights Act’s last remaining major provision would potentially trigger a political avalanche — an event that starts narrow but gathers ...
WASHINGTON – When Congress passed landmark civil rights legislation in 1965 to stop racial discrimination in voting, only six members of the U.S. House were Black. Today, there are 10 times as many ...
Louisiana's two Black congressmen believe a Supreme Court case threatens the Voting Rights Act. The case challenges the constitutionality of a newly created second majority-Black congressional ...
The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, threatening the equal representation of Black voters, and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ...
A central grievance motivating today’s conservative legal movement — and the Republican Party more broadly — holds that any measure rectifying the country’s habitual discrimination against minorities ...
"They can literally create a permanent one-party rule system without the Voting Rights Act in place--and doing it at the expense of Black communities and Black voters," Cliff Albright, co-founder of ...
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court could be ready to curtail a key provision of a landmark civil rights law enacted 60 years ago to prevent racial discrimination in voting. In one of its biggest cases of ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — For nearly three decades, the small town of Mansfield was represented in Louisiana’s congressional delegation by white Republicans, even though its population is about 80% ...
WASHINGTON — A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices ...
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