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A look back at the passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Cronin and Loevy
Colorado Springs Gazette· 5 days agoMonday is the 60th anniversary of the successful cloture vote in the U.S. Senate that enabled final enactment, on July 2, 1964, of the ...
Federal lawsuit on redistricting Alabama Senate could renew gambling considerations
Birmingham News· 4 days agoSupreme Court ruling found the state legislature’s map an illegal racial gerrymander under the...
John Roberts’ ‘eh’ view of extreme partisanship is important
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAs chief justice in 2013, he oversaw a key decision that whittled away at the power of the Voting...
Former U.S. attorney general reflects on Alabama redistricting ruling a year later
ABC 3340 Birmingham· 5 days agoIt has been one year since the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's decision in Allen v....
Editorial: Senate contraception bill vote is a preview of next fight over reproductive rights
Los Angeles Times· 7 days agoThe bill needed 60 votes to proceed but only received five, all but two of those coming from...
OPINION | KEESA SMITH: For our children | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 4 days agoin which he openly thought through the next step for the country after experiencing wins such as the...
White people aren't being discriminated against. Groups trying to keep Black people down.
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSection 1981 of the 1866 Civil Rights Act granted Black people the same rights as white people when...
Native Americans granted citizenship 100 years ago, but voting rights came decades later
Arizona Daily Star· 3 days agoArizona, in particular, used literacy tests and other tools to quash voting rights of Americans who...
Supreme Court ruling 1 year ago changed Alabama’s congressional map
Birmingham News· 5 days agoDemocrat Shomari Figures and Republican Caroleene Dobson will face off in the November general...
Their View: Justice Alito doesn’t understand the history of white power - Times Leader
Times Leader· 2 days agoThe recent Supreme Court decision written by Justice Samuel Alito in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP is astonishing. Alito, who prides himself on ...