Poll Tax

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...

The foggy origins, malleable policies, and naked ambitionof the certified phony who would be the leader of the free world.

America is long past excuses for failing to confront systemic racism, says Peniel Joseph. Black voters led the way to victory in 2020, Joseph argues, and it's time for the nation and the Biden-Harris administration to listen, learn and take action.

Months of discussions about racial justice are being followed by change at the ballot box

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In the whiskey hours of the morning, Donald Trump declared victory in an election where millions of votes have yet to be counted.

In the small town of Ocoee, Fla., a racist mob went on a rampage after a Black man tried to cast his ballot on Nov. 2, 1920. It was a massacre all but forgotten for decades.

The lawsuit is one of hundreds fueled by the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to challenges over how people can cast their ballots in the showdown between...

Gone was the all-day party with a DJ and grills full of barbecue at an early voting site at a center that once housed a historically Black college. Black...

Trump wants to make the shift to clean energy sound abrupt and scary.

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

The old civil rights worker was sure the struggle would be over by now. At its worst, he'd mourned three young men who were fighting for Black...

Both sides in the U.S. presidential election are clashing in court over rules and procedures ahead of the Nov. 3 vote, as the coronavirus pandemic prompts...

What we saw this week bore little resemblance to the GOP caricatures of a nominee being railroaded, including because of her faith.

State officials don't know how many felons are registered or eligible to vote. So we did our own analysis and found only a very small percentage of them will be able to cast ballots this election. Some could face prosecution if they do.

Florida won't even tell people how much they have to pay to vote.

Not only can Florida force people to pay a tax before voting, but the state doesn't have to tell them how much to pay.

Less than two months before the election, both parties are waging legal battles around the country over who gets to vote and how.

Federal appeals court blocks hundreds of thousands of felons in Florida who still owe fines and fees from registering to vote  The Washington PostEx-Felons in Florida Must Pay Fines Before Voting, Appeals Court Rules  The New York TimesFederal Court Reinstates "Pay-to-Vote" Scheme for Formerly Incarcerated People in Florida  SlateFlorida felon voting: appeals judges restore 'poll tax'  New York Daily NewsAppeals…