The right to vote is at the very heart of every democratic government. Running alongside that is the right to make that vote count; to provide at least the hope that people can change their political ...

The Supreme Court has decided to maintain existing legal protections across most of the United States, ensuring that, for the ...

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

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.

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.

The Voting Rights Act is quite likely dead given previous Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice John Roberts, opines ...

What’s really behind these redistricting plans? The Trump administration and Governor Abbott have claimed that the 9th, 18th, ...