North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers ...

“The upshot of Louisiana’s burn-it-all-down approach is that it wants relief from any congressional or judicial scrutiny of ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On August 21, 1907, the state of Georgia imposed the “Grandfather Clause.” This legislation added a literacy test as a requirement for voting, which was a major blow to the rights ...

WASHINGTON — One of President Donald Trump’s nominees to a federal judgeship, Josh Divine, argued in a college opinion piece that people should be required to take literacy tests in order to vote — ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - This week on ‘Awareness,’ Billie Jean Shaw spearheads a discussion about improving literacy in the Black community. An alarming national statistic shows that, in South Carolina, ...

California students posted test score gains as Newsom signed a new law expanding literacy instruction and updating reading ...

California Governor Newsom announces improved K-12 test scores, especially for minority and low-income students.