Literacy Test

The whiplash from the Georgia elections to the storming of the Capitol mirrored a familiar pattern in U.S. history of Black advancement followed by white backlash.

No one should forget this, and no one should forgive it.

We took a 1964 Louisiana literacy test. The test was 30 questions and had to be completed in 10 minutes. One wrong answer resulted in failure.

My grandmother, barred from voting for half her life, died two weeks ago. The sacrifices made by women like her led to this moment

Hoaxes and misleading posts aimed at depressing turnout have spread on social media. Experts say it outpaces 2016, when Black voters were the top target of Russian-backed disinformation.

Eight days from the 2020 election, the story is just how many people are already voting.

Even if you haven't said them out loud yet, you probably have questions about how the 2020 election will work.

A new documentary focusing on Abrams mixes real history with modern myths.

100 years later, nine American women on what the legacy of women's enfranchisement has wrought — and what it hasn't.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Myrna Pérez, director of the Brennan Center's Voting Rights and Elections Program, about the history of the Voting Rights Act — the legacy of the late Rep. John Lewis.

Whatever its shape, the era ahead must rekindle the aspiration of a nation molded in the ideal of perfect equality.

Problematic words and phrases like "master" and "blacklist" are everywhere: in real estate, in computing, in law and in everyday conversation.

See photos from the Selma to Montgomery marches, which were held to protest discriminatory practices that prevented many black people from voting in the South.

On this day in history, in 1870, the U.S. Congress ratified the 15th Amendment, which granted African American men the right to vote.

A late move by the Trump administration would stop enforcement of protections against discriminatory practices that have a "disparate impact" on protected groups.

Organizers at grassroots groups working to turn out voters say navigating changing and sometimes maddening election rules in Georgia is a huge burden.

These lawsuits have upended courts' role in interpreting voting laws.

DETROIT (AP) — When longtime Detroit community advocate Frank McGhee watched two Republican canvassers vote against certifying election results in the majority Black city, he was...

Now that Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed to the Supreme Court, civil rights advocates are concerned her ideology will reverse their progress.

Suffragists said women voting would transform politics. Here's how women have wielded the ballot in the past century, according to a political scientist