Redrawing this NC district to weaken Black voting strength is a betrayal of everything this region has stood for. | Opinion ...

North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters.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

Donald Trump’s administration isn’t being subtle in the steps it’s taking to recreate the conditions of the segregated Jim Crow era. And one of his judicial nominees for a lifetime appointment once ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

This essay and its accompanying video are part of a 10-part series created by the Equal Justice Initiative to spotlight often overlooked or hidden stories of racial injustice. ESSENCE is republishing ...

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.