This August marked the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – the landmark United States federal law that banned racial discrimination in voting. But six decades later, many of its ...

Black South Carolinians voted in 1948 for the first time since Reconstruction. This successful crusade, like many others, helped lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Black South Carolinians voted in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuesday's elections proved to be not only big wins for Democratic candidates in many races, but also history-making in several ...

As America nears its 250th birthday, the act of voting seems straightforward enough. Folks plaster their cars and yards with political signs, celebrities unleash spiels encouraging Americans to ...

The League of Women Voters will focus on the history of voting on Wednesday, Nov. 12 as part of its Semiquincentennial Speaker Series at Creative 360. This is the second event in the series. The ...