Last weekend, outnumbered Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives, powerless to stop another self-serving ...

Federal judges ordered Alabama to continue using a court-selected congressional map for the rest of the decade, but they ...

ANXIOUS ANNIVERSARY — The Voting Rights Act was signed into law 60 years ago this week. What the law will look like when it ...

Texas Republicans are taking extraordinary measures to quell a quorum break by House Democrats designed to kill congressional redistricting.

My heart was full at the recent ceremony announcing the first recipients of the Williamsburg Descendant Scholarship program.

The Supreme Court signaled its appetite to pull more teeth from the Voting Rights Act, rendering it all but biteless.

Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed what many in Austin speculated: he will call special session after special session until bills are ...

March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their procession less than a mile away at the Brown Chapel A ...

At dinner last weekend a friend asked me to reflect on this birthday and almost 50 years in Northampton. Which I’ve done. In ...

Like democracy, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 didn’t come with a lifetime warranty. The survival of both depends on our vigilance in protecting the vote, democracy’s most important lifeline.

Wednesday marked the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act being signed into law. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ...