The Voting Rights Act's legacy is under threat. Maryland's proposed Voting Rights Act could protect fair representation and ...

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

They say stay ready so you never have to get ready. So with President Donald Trump disrupting the nation at its core, it’s ...

Last November, the new majority-Black 6th district voted in U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields. The district, in its previous, ...

Nearly 3 million Americans live sicker, shorter lives in the hundreds of rural counties where doctor shortages are the worst and poor internet connections mean little or no access to telehealth ...

Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms ...

Every spring since 1969, Dartmouth researchers produced hand-drawn maps of songbird territories in New Hampshire's Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest by listening for their distinctive calls. Fifty ...

Redistricting plans in Mississippi could be one step closer to becoming a reality. The state’s House and Senate passed the proposals on Wednesday. Lawmakers have had their ...

Voters from 15 Mississippi legislative districts will decide special elections this November if a federal court goes along ...

While research from the 1990s on minority-opportunity districts did not find consistent turnout effects, more recent analysis ...

The NAACP's Legal Defense Fund has filed a lawsuit against Fayette County, alleging its electoral map is racially ...